Protests are being held around the world today to mark five years of prisoners being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
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I think it's terrible. Why are they still there?
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Because the US government has tried to muddy the waters regarding their rights.
They claim that because the detainees are not soldiers they can't be described as 'prisoners of war' therefore aren't subject to humane treatment under the Geneva Convention.
It's all a total farce. None of the detainees have been tried or are to face a trial and the British detainees who have been released have said that they were tortured. The US denies this but, funnily enough, other released detainees from France, Australia and elsewhere have said strikingly similar things regarding what they went through.
It's pretty disgusting really.
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It is still hard for me to comprehend that a country, founded with a Constitution what heralds individual rights above the States, could even consider the notion of "enemy combatants".
They argue in the Supreme Court that this is a "grey area"- but if you look at the Bill of Rights, it is clearly not.
We should hang our heads in shame about this abhorrent little place, and we should all insist that the notion of "enemy combatants" having no rights is simply wrong- and immoral.
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Carter wrote:
We should hang our heads in shame about this abhorrent little place, and we should all insist that the notion of "enemy combatants" having no rights is simply wrong- and immoral.
Amen. When Dubya and Blair talk about us living in a democracy it makes me cringe.
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Well we have to hang our own heads - Belmarsh prison, anyone? It's shocking that 5 years later, this is still going on, considering half the people were released without charge in the end after months or years of waiting, including men over 70 and boys of 14 - how much threat could they possibly pose?
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