Recently Declassified Notes Reveal Brutal Treatment of Hunger Striking Det

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCTOBER 20, 2005
10:01 AM


CONTACT: Center for Constitutional Rights
Mahdis Keshavarz; Riptide Communications, 212.260.5000 / 425.591.8781 cell


Recently Declassified Notes Reveal Brutal Treatment of Hunger Striking Detainees at Gitmo

NEW YORK — After an emergency court hearing on counsel’s right to information regarding the health status and medical treatment of Guantánamo hunger strikers late last week, Julia Tarver, an attorney with the New York City-based law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and cooperating counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights, sought and obtained public release of her declaration regarding the situation at the Guantánamo facility. Tarver’s notes detail interviews she conducted at Guantánamo with her clients, Yousef Al Shehri, Abduhl-Rahman Shalabi, and Majid Al Joudi, who are currently engaged in a hunger strike there. The declassified notes reveal the dire conditions of these men. According to Tarver’s declaration:

* Force-feedings resulted in prisoners “vomiting up substantial amounts of blood. When they vomited up blood, the soldiers mocked and cursed at them, and taunted them with statements like ‘look what your religion has brought you.’”

* “Large tubes – the thickness of a finger – were viewed by detainees as objects of torture. They were forcibly shoved up the detainees’ noses and down into their stomachs. Again, no anesthesia or sedative was provided.”

* “etainees were verbally abused and insulted and were restrained from head to toe. They had shackles or other restraints on their arms, legs, waist, chest, knees, and head… with these restraints in place, they were given intravenous medication (often quite painfully, as inexperienced medical professionals seemed incapable of locating appropriate veins). Their arms were swollen from multiple attempts to stick them with IV needles… If detainees moved, they were hit in the chest/heart.......
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* http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1020-05.htm

[pushycat]

1. Worse than anyone could imagine... WHEN WILL CONGRESS

take action on this? GITMO IS INSANE No kind of intel is worth this kind of behavior EVER. Rumsfeld is certifiable

[Barrett808]

2. Horrifying, but SOP under the Bush mafia's misrule. n/t