Protesters compare detention to Guantanamo

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Protesters compare detention to Guantanamo

http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/nation/10252022.htm

Associated Press

Tue, Nov. 23, 2004

NEW YORK - Saying the city had created its "own little Guantanamo on
the Hudson" during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer Monday
filed a lawsuit on behalf of nearly 2,000 people arrested at
demonstrations.

The federal lawsuit claims protesters and bystanders alike were
rounded up in mass arrests without cause; were kept without access to
their lawyers or families at an old bus depot used as a temporary
detention center; and were exposed for days to cruel and inhuman
conditions.

The lawsuit asks for unspecified damages.

"All that was missing were the orange jumpsuits," lawyer Jonathan C.
Moore said. "Under the guise of terrorism and the fear of terrorism,
we are all losing our rights."

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1. Nothing new here

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