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Despair at Guantanamo
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2006-06-20 20:50. Media
By Agence France-Presse, Le Devoir

Washington - Internal Pentagon documents on the prison at Guantanamo that were made public yesterday by the main American organization for the defense of individual liberties, the ACLU, confirm, according to the ACLU, the prisoners' despair.

These documents obtained by the ACLU thanks to the Freedom of Information Act "are the latest evidence of the desperate and immoral conditions that exist at Guantanamo Bay," the organization's director, Anthony Romero, declared yesterday in a communiqué.

Among the 1,000 pages of documents made public, one finds a medical report dated April 29, 2003, detailing a suicide attempt by a detainee who tried to hang himself with a towel.

The detainee lapsed into a "vegetative state" due to a brain lesion caused by the hanging, according to this report. The medical personnel at Guantanamo strongly recommended "a rapid return to his country" for the detainee, noting that he had a history of depression and that his rehabilitation would be lengthy. The documents do not indicate whether the camp authorities followed the medical personnel's recommendations.

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