Guantanamo conditions 'worsening'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Wednesday, 4 April 2007, 23:10 GMT 00:10 UK

Guantanamo conditions 'worsening'

Conditions for detainees at the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay
are deteriorating, with the majority held in solitary confinement,
a report says.

Amnesty International said the often harsh and inhumane conditions
at the camp were "pushing people to the edge".

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The group said the facility had "created even harsher and apparently
more permanent conditions of extreme isolation and sensory
deprivation".

It said the detainees were reportedly confined to windowless cells
for 22 hours a day, only allowed to exercise at night and could go
for days without seeing daylight.

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"With many prisoners already in despair at being held in indefinite
detention... some are dangerously close to full-blown mental and
physical breakdown.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6526589.stm

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Related: Conditions in Guantanamo Detention Center Flout International Standards... - Amnesty International

[enough]

1. Every day (every year) people are held without charges, incommunicado, is WORSENING,

by definition.

Thanks for the post.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Before Bush took office, the philosophy of the US military....

...was to treat prisoners as you would want to be treated if you were a prisoner.

[pigpickle]

3. Chalk it up to "standard operating procedure."

[angstlessk]

4. Hell, one could look at those Brits and see how DEPRIVED they

were...Iran is such a backwards country...they know nothing about how to torture a prisoner to madness...

[formercia]

5. Madmen tell no tales

what they did to Padilla is a good example.