Monday, June 13, 2005

Minors at Guantanamo

NYT reported Lawyers representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, say that there still may be as many as six prisoners who were captured before their 18th birthday

So what? We have juveniles committing murder in the US, and they are treated as adults. The Supreme Court now says they can't be subjected to the death penalty, but no one has been executed at Guantanamo.
and that the military has sought to conceal the precise number of juveniles at the prison camp. One lawyer said that his client, a Saudi of Chadian descent, was not yet 15 when he was captured and has told him that he was beaten regularly in his early days at Guantánamo, hanged by his wrists for hours at a time and that an interrogator pressed a burning cigarette into his arm.
As we have seen in the Al Qaeda Training Manual, they are trained to make false claims about how they are treated

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