Twenty-five former Guantanamo detainees issued a statement recommending that the American medical profession stop its complicity with abuse force-feeding techniques; conditions on confinement for detainees be improved immediately; all detainees who have not been charged be released; and the military commissions process be ended and all those be charged tried in line with the Geneva Conventions.
HRW dismantles the claim that Uzbekistan's adoption of habeas corpus and other procedural rights for pre-trial detainees has improved human rights.
While the situation of juvenile detainees is improving, many feel that change is not happening fast enough.
We make the following recommendations: 1 For the American medical profession to stop its complicity with abusive forced feeding techniques. 2 For conditions of confinement for detainees to be improved immediately.
And then there's some other stuff about corruption in the Karzai government and in Pakistan...so, a mixed bag, or murder and corruption and danger, but hey -- slightly improved detainee policy!
Common complaints among the detainees in Murmansk included exposure to the icy Arctic winds, lack of heating and almost inedible food, but most detainees agreed that conditions improved dramatically when they were transferred by prison train to St Petersburg earlier this month.
Ramzi Kassem, a detainees' lawyer who teaches at Yale Law School, said Friday that the new administration had yet to deal effectively either with efforts to release many of the detainees or to improve the conditions at the camp.
Barbara Gonzalez, press secretary for the immigration agency, said that since 2009 it had greatly improved the way detainees are handled, including a new process for assessing risk to determine custody, policies that keep them closer to relatives and lawyers, and the construction of new facilities for low-risk detainees.
Not only has it provided a humane living environment for detainees, it has also greatly improved the environment for their litigation to take place and their state of mind.
Regarding Israel, the committee said that despite "numerous" allegations of torture and ill treatment of Palestinian detainees, particularly as fighting intensified over the past year, a Supreme Court ruling in 1999 apparently had improved the treatment of detainees.
