Things like detainees flinging body waste at guards, guards interrupting detainees at prayer and interrogators withholding medicine, showing hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident. These rare detainee accounts of life inside the razor wire at the remote U.S. military base in Cuba emerged during Administrative Review Board hearings aimed at deciding whether prisoners suspected of links with the Taliban or al-Qaida should continue to be held or be sent away from Guantanamo. The military has said Guantanamo is relatively calm compared to last year. But a report released by the detention centre shows mass disturbances including forced removal of prisoners from cells and assaults with bodily fluids are up sharply over 2006. A letter signed by some 260 people from 16 countries – most of them doctors – and published in the British medical journal Lancet accused the U.S. medical establishment of turning a blind eye to the role of military doctors at Guantanamo.
ABUSES IN GUANTANAMO
Things like detainees flinging body waste at guards, guards interrupting detainees at prayer and interrogators withholding medicine, showing hostility and tension between inmates and their keepers at the Guantanamo Bay prison are evident. These rare detainee accounts of life inside the razor wire at the remote U.S.
