Smoke, mirrors and American justice
Six key Guantánamo detainees are to undergo trial by military commission. But having been tortured, how can they expect a fair trial?
Smoke, mirrors and American justice
Six key Guantánamo detainees are to undergo trial by military commission. But having been tortured, how can they expect a fair trial?
The issue is straightforward: the men cannot receive fair trials
The immediate problem for the holding of any successful trial of these men is that they are known to have been severely tortured by the CIA and contractors working for them
No evidence obtained by torture is admissible in any court, and senior US lawyers are lining up to make all necessary legal challenges to the government
the CIA has recently admitted were tortured with "
waterboarding" by their operatives
It is torture, and that is outlawed under international law
simulated drowning, carried out in secret prisons
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