Red Cross to visit Guantanamo next week
The Red Cross is scheduled to visit Guantanamo next week and will probably be meeting with some of the 14 detainees recently tranferred there from CIA secret prisons. The Red Cross will not publicly report anything they are told, but they will carry communication to the relatives (assuming the US allows this Geneva Convention mandate.)
So, any stories we hear about their treatment will be coming from very shaky sources.
So, any stories we hear about their treatment will be coming from very shaky sources.
posted by mikevotes at
4:13 PM
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The Red Cross will not repeat conversations they have, but they will report the conditions prisoners are held under and their treatment complaints, won't they?
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Unknown, at 5:32 PM
Yes, they will eventually.
Previously at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, they first took the issues up with the US government which added quite some time, but those were mostly matters of condition, and a resolution was found between the US and Red Cross.
The Red Cross report information out of Guantanamo came from a leak inside the US government if I remember right.
If it's black letter provable torture, the circumstances might be different, but I don't think they're going to see any hard evidence, it'll just be testimony, so I just don't know.
This is not an area I know too much about, I'm basing what I'm writing on what has occurred in the recent past relating to the US government.
So, my response is probably not much help, although I would guess over the next week, the procedures will be spelled out more clearly.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:51 PM
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