The Department of Defence continues to hold hundreds of foreign nationals without charge or trial in the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Many have been held there for more than a year in conditions the totality of which may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. None was granted prisoner of war status or brought before a competent tribunal to determine this status as required by the Geneva Conventions. None has had access to any court or to legal counsel. Visits by family members have not been granted, thereby drawing relatives into the distress of this indefinite and unchallengeable detention regime. On 3 July 2003, it was announced that President Bush had named six detainees under the Military Order he signed in November 2001, making them eligible for trial by military commission. Any such trial would contravene international fair trial norms, and any executions carried out after such trials would violate minimum international safeguards applying to capital cases.
I haven't seen this topic posted for a while. We all know that Team Dubbya has done all it can in the last couple of years to instigate terror world wide in the guise of fighting it. Isn't it about time that the US citizens demand their government act in a civilized way with these foreign nationals ?
The Americans have had enough time to brainwash their prisoners & beat confessions out of them : turn them over to an international court or set them free !

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