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What’s Wrong with Gitmo?

What’s Wrong with Gitmo?. Almerindo E. Ojeda The Guant ánamo Testimonials Project Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas University of California at Davis http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu. The Nine Forms of Abuse. Physical. Legal. Religious. Sexual. Psychological. National.

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What’s Wrong with Gitmo?

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  1. What’s Wrong with Gitmo? Almerindo E. Ojeda The Guantánamo Testimonials Project Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas University of California at Davis http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu

  2. The Nine Forms of Abuse Physical Legal Religious Sexual Psychological National Medical Verbal Age-Related

  3. Physical Abuse • Forced Cell Extractions (IRFing) done: • With excessive force [1] • With excessive pepper-spraying [2] • With retaliatory intent [3] - [4] • Other beatings [5] - [6] • Bending thumbs backwards, pressuring genitals [7] • Stress positions (Positional Torture) [8] • Injurious shackling (excessively tight or heavy shackles)

  4. Sexual Abuse • Sexual Harrassment [1] • Invasion of personal space • Inappropriate physical contact • Sexual taunting • Forced anal penetration during rectal exams [2] • Lack of privacy while showering and going to the toilet [3]

  5. Medical Abuse • Denial of medical treatment [1] • Subordination of treatment to cooperation [2] • Forced feeding of hunger strikers [3] • Medical supervision of “enhanced interrogation” [4] • Sharing medical records with interrogators [5] • Non-therapeutic hidration (orally, IVs, enemas) [6] • Non-therapeutic drugging [7] - [8]

  6. Legal Abuse • Kidnapping (arrests without warrants) • Human trafficking (bounties for the capture) • Disappearance (secret detention) early on • Incommunicado holding (No family ever; no lawyers early on) • No timely recourse to habeas corpus (the right to question your detention before a court of law)

  7. Legal Abuse (2) • Subjection to unfair proceedings: CSRTs and ARBs [1] • Prosecution makes the rules (crime is codified after the arrest; no right to a lawyer, to self-representation, or to attorney-client privilege; evidence can’t be questioned; guilt is presumed; coerced testimony and hearsay evidence are allowed). • Prosecution appoints the defense team from its own ranks (and may dismiss it). • Prosecution appoints the tribunal from its own ranks (and may dismiss it). • Prosecution may reject the ruling and order a remake (and has; sometimes twice). • Subjection to further unfair proceedings: Trials by military commission and habeas hearings.

  8. Psychological Abuse • Abusive isolation (to prolong shock of capture, for non-maximal infractions, or for more than thirty days) [1] - [2] • Debilitation (sleep deprivation, temperature manipulation, hypocaloric meals) • Disorientation (spatial, temporal, sensory) • Sensory assault (loud music, strobe lights) • Induced desperation (learned helplessnes) • Threats (of rendition, dogs) • Feral treatment (holding cages) • Humiliation (female underwear, dog tricks, mocking haircuts)

  9. Psychological Abuse • Abusive isolation (to prolong shock of capture, for non-maximal infractions, or for more than thirty days) • Abusive isolation (to prolong shock of capture, for non-maximal infractions, or for more than thirty days) • Debilitation (sleep deprivation, temperature manipulation, hypocaloric meals) • Disorientation (spatial, temporal, sensory) • Sensory assault (loud music, strobe lights) • Induced desperation (learned helplessnes) • Threats (of rendition, dogs) • Feral treatment (holding cages) • Humiliation (female underwear, dog tricks, mocking haircuts)

  10. Age-Related Abuse • At least twelve minors were held in GTMO [1] • At least some of them were interrogated [2] • At least some of them were tortured • Mohamed Jawad was deprived of sleep [3] • Omar Khadr was tortured in multiple ways [4] • Jawad and Khadr have been tried as war criminals (the first children ever to be).

  11. Religious Abuse • Fake menstrual blood tactic [1] - [2] • Mocking prayer • Pornography and sexual taunting [3] • Koran desecration (handling, stepping, kicking, batting, dumping it into the toilet) [4] • Demanding collaboration in exchange for permission to pray • Playing the national anthem over the call to prayer [5]

  12. National ⁄ Ethnic Abuse • Wrapping prisoners with the Israeli flag during interrogation [1]

  13. Verbal Abuse • You are now property of the U.S. Marines [1] - [2] • Others [3]

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