Panel: Guantanamo prisoners still tortured - San Jose Mercury News
29.1.11
Panel: Guantanamo prisoners still tortured - San Jose Mercury News: "BERKELEY -- All prisoners should be released from the United States' Guantanamo Bay facility, a former detainee and experts said Wednesday night at a UC Berkeley panel discussion.
The three panelists criticized President Barack Obama for failing to follow through on a 2009 promise to close the prison, which opened in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks to hold people captured in Afghanistan and other countries with terrorist ties. Torture has made it impossible to give detainees a fair trial, they said, making their imprisonment unjust.
Among the speakers at the event, sponsored by Amnesty International, was Omar Deghayes, who was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 and held without charges at Guantanamo for six years. Abuse by U.S. guards left him blind in one eye, he said."
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