Il Pentagono rilasci ai nomi di alcuni detenuti a Guantanamo

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Mentre continuano le denunce sugli abusi nel carcere di Guantanamo e nelle strutture di detenzione in Iraq, l’Associated Press ha scoperto che un bel numero di detenuti islamici chiede agli americani di restare a Camp Delta e di non essere rimpatriato. Motivo? Nelle carceri dei loro paesi verrebbero torturati. Il prigioniero cinese di nome Mahmut, il quale due giorni fa è apparso davanti al Tribunale militare che lo sta giudicando, ha detto: “Non voglio essere rimpatriato, vorrei chiedere asilo politico”. La sua paura, ha scritto la Ap, è simile a quella di dozzine di altri detenuti dell’Uzbekistan, dello Yemen, dell’Algeria. Un siriano ha detto: “Avete detto ‘terroristi, terroristi’. Se torniamo, sia che abbiamo fatto qualcosa sia no, lì non ci sono diritti umani. Saremo uccisi immediatamente”. Gli Stati Uniti hanno già liberato 187 prigionieri e trasferito nelle carceri dei paesi d’origine altri 80 detenuti. Ora hanno annunciato di fare lo stesso con altri 123 prigionieri. Yasim, saudita, ha detto: “Io non posso tornare nel mio paese. Sono stato minacciato di morte”. Mahmut il cinese ha ribadito: “Se torno in Cina, mi tortureranno. Useranno cani, mi strapperanno le unghie”. Ora sta pensando di convincere i giudici della propria colpevolezza. In modo da restare a Guantanamo


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Guantanamo better than Belgian prisons-OSCE expert
Reuters
BRUSSELS - Inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison are treated better than in Belgian jails, an expert for Europe's biggest security organization said on Monday after a visit to the controversial U.S. detention center.

But Alain Grignard, deputy head of Brussels' federal police anti-terrorism unit, said that holding people for many years without telling them what would happen to them is in itself "mental torture."

"At the level of the detention facilities, it is a model prison, where people are better treated than in Belgian prisons," said Grignard.

He served as expert on a visit to Guantanamo Bay last week by a group of lawmakers from the assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE).

Grignard's comments came less than a month after a United Nations report said that Guantanamo prison detainees faced treatment amounting to torture.

Many of the 500 inmates in the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba have been held for four years without trial. The prisoners were mainly detained in Afghanistan and are held as pat of President George W. Bush's "war on terror."

Grignard told a news conference that prisoners' right to practice their religion, food, clothes and medical care were better than in Belgian prisons.

"I know no Belgian prison where each inmate receives its Muslim kit," Grignard said.

Grignard said that while Guantanamo was not "idyllic," he had noticed dramatic improvements each time he visited the facility over the last two years.

The head of the OSCE lawmakers in the delegation said she was happy with the medical facilities at the camp, adding she believed they had been improved recently.

Anne-Marie Lizin, chair of the Belgian Senate, told reporters at the same news conference she saw no point in calling for immediate closure of the detention camp.

"There needs to be a timetable for closure," said Lizin, but asking for immediate closure would have been unrealistic.

U.N. investigators last month demanded that the U.S. government close the prison without further delay, alleging a host of violations of human rights and torture.

They did not visit the site because they were not allowed to conduct interviews with the prisoners.

Lizin said the OSCE parliamentary delegation was also unable to talk to prisoners but had discussed the situation with the International Red Cross which has access to them.

The OSCE plans to prepare a report by the end of May, touching on the delegation's concerns including the legal situation of detainees, Lizin added.

The United States is a member of the 55-country OSCE.


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