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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Posted by john fears - 6 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 7 hours, 20 minutes ago
This article is the most detestable drive by propaganda piece - absent a single relevant fact, much less all the facts - that I have read away from the Daily Kos or the Hamas official website. That the ABA would actually tolerate such ideologically driven propaganda would be laughable were it not so tragically helpful to Al
Qaeda. George Orwell must be spinning in his grave.