FOCUS | William Fisher: Son of Gitmo
Legal, diplomatic, religious and human rights authorities are struggling to be heard on what many consider to be the "Son of Guantanamo" - a secret prison in Afghanistan where the US military is said to have been holding some 500 "enemy combatants" for as long as three or four years without access to lawyers."Apart from the ongoing harms to human rights, one of the most remarkable features of the US detentions at Bagram and elsewhere is that four and a half years after September 11, the administration continues to hold nearly 15,000 detainees worldwide without rights recognized under any domestic or international legal regime, and without a plan for how it might begin detaining people legally in what the administration now calls the 'long war' going forward." - Deborah Pearlstein, Director of the U.S. Law and Security Program of Human Rights First.
...Read more from truthout.org here
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