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Guantánamo strikers threatened with body cavity searches, lawyer says
Source: The Guardian
Guantanamo strikers threatened with body cavity searches, lawyer says
Paul Harris and Matt Williams in New York
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 May 2013 21.06 BST
Hunger strikers at Guantánamo Bay are being threatened with body cavity searches before they can see their legal representatives, a leading human rights lawyer has claimed in a letter to British foreign secretary William Hague.
Clive Stafford Smith, the founder of legal group Reprieve, represents various detainees in Guantánamo, the controversial US military detention camp in Cuba used to house terrorism suspects.
They include Shaker Aamer, who is among more than 100 inmates currently on a hunger strike at the jail that has created global headlines and a growing political problem for President Obama by focusing on attention on how so many inmates have been detained without trial for so long.
In the letter to Hague, seen by the Guardian, Smith said US guards insist on a body search before any detainee can contact their lawyer, either via an in-person interview at the base or with a phone call. "The US military has started directly abusing prisoners who want to contact their lawyers to tell them what is happening. So anyone who wants to see a lawyer, or have a legal phone call, must have his fingers put up his anus and his genitals touched," Smith wrote.
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Paul Harris and Matt Williams in New York
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 May 2013 21.06 BST
Hunger strikers at Guantánamo Bay are being threatened with body cavity searches before they can see their legal representatives, a leading human rights lawyer has claimed in a letter to British foreign secretary William Hague.
Clive Stafford Smith, the founder of legal group Reprieve, represents various detainees in Guantánamo, the controversial US military detention camp in Cuba used to house terrorism suspects.
They include Shaker Aamer, who is among more than 100 inmates currently on a hunger strike at the jail that has created global headlines and a growing political problem for President Obama by focusing on attention on how so many inmates have been detained without trial for so long.
In the letter to Hague, seen by the Guardian, Smith said US guards insist on a body search before any detainee can contact their lawyer, either via an in-person interview at the base or with a phone call. "The US military has started directly abusing prisoners who want to contact their lawyers to tell them what is happening. So anyone who wants to see a lawyer, or have a legal phone call, must have his fingers put up his anus and his genitals touched," Smith wrote.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/14/guantanamo-hunger-strikers-body-search
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