International Law
Gitmo Among World’s 10 Worst Prisons
Posted Apr 28, 2008, 11:00 am CST
By Martha Neil
Citing the case of a 15-year-old (Omar Khadr) who has been jailed there for six years without trial, a U.K. newspaper has included Camp Delta at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as one of the ten worst prisons in the world.
"Technically, of course, Camp Delta is not a prison. It is a high-security detention camp where the U.S. holds 'enemy combatants,' " notes the London Times. "As a result these men do not qualify for the human rights usually afforded to convicted inmates or prisoners of war."
Other prisons included in the ten-worst list are located in Argentina, Brazil, Equatorial Guinea, France, Kenya, Syria, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela.
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