Guantánamo torture and humiliation still going on, says shackled Briton

[kskiska]

Fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their American captors at Guantánamo Bay have been made by a Briton still held there, according to Foreign Office documents seen by the Guardian.

The claims by Martin Mubanga, from London, are the latest to surface from the prison where the US holds 550 Muslim men it claims are terrorists in conditions that have sparked worldwide condemnation.

Mr Mubanga, 31, alleges that only months ago he was kept shackled for so long that he wet himself, and then was forced to clean up his own urine. He claims to have been threatened, that an interrogator stood on his hair, and that he was subjected to extremes of temperature rising to 36C (97F). He was kept chained to the floor by his feet for an hour during a welfare visit from a British government official.

Mr Mubanga is one of four Britons still in Guantánamo, held without charge or trial. His allegations follow revelations that FBI agents recently raised concerns about ill treatment they witnessed of prisoners.

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[Newsjock]

1. Remember how the German people were shunned or worse

... after the horrors of World War II. We have to take action now to ensure that those of us who oppose this obscene treatment are heard now and in the future, so that we are not held accountable in the recriminations that will doubtless come over the course of decades or generations.

[Voltaire99]

2. Democrats have a duty...

...to speak out against these indecencies and atrocities.

Don't let pressure to "support the troops" still your tongue.

Pressure your elected officials to make noise, too. If this party is going to stand for something again, taking a firm position against torture would be a good starting point.