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by Stephen Lendman

03/09/09

Despite Obama’s EO, ‘conditions at Guantanamo have not improved’ and continue in violation of the law. Since it opened in 2002, CCR enlisted over 500 pro bono lawyers to represent hundreds of detainees. This report is based on ‘direct accounts from (them) and their attorneys,’ as recently as January and February 2009. The results are deeply disturbing. … In a word, they’re unchanged, outrageous, and illegal. Inmates struggle for their sanity and say conditions are like living in a tomb. The Pentagon and Obama administration deny it and describe isolation as greater ‘privacy’ and ’single-occupancy cells.’ Conditions, however, ’speak for themselves’...

http://counterpunch.org/lendman03092009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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