Lawyers Describe Guantanamo Detainees

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- Two defense lawyers who met recently with about a dozen Kuwaitis held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said Wednesday the men appeared emaciated and complained of physical abuse, humiliation and torture.

"These men are startlingly thin," said Kristine Huskey, one of the lawyers representing the men in a lawsuit challenging their confinement.
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At a news conference, Huskey and attorney Thomas Wilner said they could provide only overall impressions from their meetings under government rules requiring all attorney-client conversations to remain classified until authorities approve their release. Huskey interviewed the Kuwaitis the week after Christmas while Wilner visited Guantanamo last week.

Huskey said all the detainees claimed they had been abused. She declined to provide examples, citing the government rules, but she did describe taunting by guards and a lack of proper medical treatment. In one case, she said, a Muslim detainee watched as a guard threw a Quran in the toilet.

Huskey said several detainees told her people have come into their cells claiming to be their lawyers and trying to extract information from them.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-guantanamo-prisoners,0,5233098.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[proudbluestater]

1. This just makes me sick. I think about these folks EVERY day

and feel so helpless to do a damn thing to help.

Six months ago, the Supreme Court ruled the people may not be kept at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely, without knowing the charges, without represenatation and trial.

And here we are, with the regime defying the very Supreme Court that put it into office.

I guess we are left with hoping the international community will step in and force us to do the right thing?

[tlcandie]

2. I guess we could all illegally get to Cuba and bombard the gates

I dunno what to do either it's sickening!!! Slow, grueling torture where none can see nor discuss in public! :cry: Just wonder how many more are receiving this same treatment in places we have no clue where they are or how many have already died?!?!?

[struggle4progress]

3. kick