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Gli Stati Uniti si muovono verso gli avvocati di limite' accedono a agli interni de Guantanamo
Venerdì 27 aprile 2007
Come conseguenza delle rivelazioni recenti di tortura e di abuso diffusi al Guant? l'accampamento della prigione della baia di namo, il reparto della giustizia degli Stati Uniti ha intrapreso l'azione legale per limitare gli avvocati? accedi a ai loro clienti incarcerated là. Questi avvocati sono stati una fonte importante delle notizie dall'interno dell'accampamento, malgrado essere già conforme ad un insieme delle regole rigoroso stabilite dal pentagono e dalla Corte d'Appello di CC in 2004. Il reparto della giustizia ha chiesto la Corte d'Appello di circuito di DC di Washington per limitare il numero di volte gli avvocati può visitare i diversi clienti a quattro (attualmente hanno chiamate illimitate), permette soltanto una chiamata prima di cui il prigioniero deve decidere se o non permetterà che l'avvocato lo rappresenti e proibisce gli avvocati dall'osservazione? prova segreta? quello può essere usato contro i loro clienti nei tribunali militari. Un'udienza di corte sulla limatura avverrà il 15 maggio. Il reparto della giustizia provocatorio sostiene nella limatura che le interazioni fra gli avvocati civili e Guant? i prigionieri di namo hanno causato? problemi e minacce insolubili contro sicurezza a Guant? namo? incolpando degli avvocati il disobedience inciting, i colpi di fame e l'agitazione. Gli avvocati inoltre sono accusati di fornire ai detainees i rapporti di notizie ed i clienti degli eventi che avvengono fuori dell'accampamento. ? Tali informazioni minacciano la sicurezza dell'accampamento, poichè potrebbero incite la violenza fra i detainees? la limatura ha dichiarato. Tempi de New York ha citato la reazione dell'avvocato Niel H. Koslowe, chi ha denominato questo a? carica di McCarthy-era.? Avvocati? le descrizioni dell'accampamento e dei metodi hanno usato torturare gli interni là hanno contribuito alle esposizioni numerose dai gruppi quali l'unione americana di libertà civili, internazionale di amnistia, il centro per i diritti costituzionali, i diritti dell'uomo in primo luogo, la Commissione di diritti dell'uomo di NU ed i medici per i diritti dell'uomo, che hanno attratto l'attenzione internazionale. Il Guant? l'accampamento della prigione della baia di namo, situato su una base navale degli Stati Uniti sul litorale del sud della Cuba, alloggia circa 400 interni di varie nazionalità, più intrappolati durante le fasi iniziali dell'invasione degli Stati Uniti e dell'occupazione dell'Afghanistan in 2002. The prison has become notorious for the physical abuse, religious persecution and humiliation of its inmates, who are denied all of their most basic rights under US and international law. Many have been incarcerated for more than five years without ever being charged with a crime. Among the latest exposures were revelations by lawyers who visited the camp, amid statements by President Bush and Defense Secretary Gates that the camp should be closed, of the particulars of a new $38 million concrete-walled facility the US military recently opened there dubbed ?Camp 6.? The new facility, completed in December 2006, houses 165 inmates. Prisoners are kept locked in individual sealed cells for 22 hours a day and are only allowed two hours of exercise in mesh cages, sometimes only at night. Bright lights are kept on at all times in the cells, temperatures are kept low, contact with other prisoners is forbidden, and virtually no personal items such as pens, paper, or watches are allowed. Lawyers whose clients were transferred to the new facility witnessed a rapid deterioration in their mental wellbeing. ?They?re just sitting on a powder keg down there,? lawyer Sabin Willett told the New York Times earlier this month. ?You?re going to have an insane asylum.? Lawyers visiting the camp also exposed how a hunger strike involving more than a third of the camp?s population was brutally suppressed in October 2005. The hunger strikers were strapped to restraint chairs while feeding tubes were forced through their nostrils and into their stomachs without anesthetic. According to one lawyer who spoke with victims of the procedure, ordinary prison guards used tubes ?with the bile and the blood still on the tube from the previous detainee.? Al-Jazeerah cameraman Sami al-Hajj, who is imprisoned at the camp, described the pain and terror of the force-feeding in his diary, which found its way to the public through his lawyer. ?I said I would begin to scream unless they took it out,? he wrote. ?They finally did.? These revelations infuriated the US government, which would for obvious reasons prefer the conditions at the camp kept secret. The Justice Department?s filing makes a menacing legal claim: ?There is no right on the part of counsel to access to detained aliens on a secure military base in a foreign country.? In other words, the prisoners at Guant?namo have no legal right to a civilian attorney; the US military can therefore arbitrarily permit or forbid a prisoner access to a lawyer and vice versa. After a Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan v Rumsfeld in 2006 called into question the legitimacy of the Pentagon military tribunals and affirmed the rights of Guant?namo detainees to seek habeas corpus relief through US courts, Congress responded by approving the infamous Military Commissions Act (MCA). Passed into law with the help of Congressional Democrats, the MCA explicitly denies Guant?namo prisoners the right to habeas corpus?a person?s bedrock democratic right to have the charges against him presented before a judge. The MCA instead restricted prisoners to challenging the decision made by the Guant?namo combatant status review tribunals designating them ?enemy combatants,? within a narrowly-defined set of limits, in the DC Court of Appeals. Given the composition of the DC Court of Appeals, it is not unlikely that it will grant in part or in full the Justice Department?s request. 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