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El congreso se opone a los lanzamientos de Guantánamo
Martes 12 de mayo de 2009
Mientras que los legisladores amped encima de la protesta contra lanzar Guantánamo “terroristas en nuestras vecindades,” Francia acordó aceptar un preso “despejado” de Guantánamo y a grupos de los derechos humanos continuados para presionar para el lanzamiento de 17 Uighurs chinos los E.E.U.U. el gobierno no ha declarado para ser ninguna amenaza a la seguridad nacional. El comité de apropiaciones Democrático-conducido de la casa la semana pasada aprobó una cuenta para financiar las guerras en Iraq y Afganistán pero peló más de $50 millones que presidente Barack Obama había solicitado para cerrar la prisión y comenzar la relocalización de sus 240 presos. Los legisladores de ambas partes exigieron que el presente de la administración de Obama un plan para cerrar Guantánamo y detallar qué sería hecha con sus internos. Los legisladores republicanos dijeron que la edición es un ejemplo de la debilidad de Obama en seguridad nacional y acusan a presidente de poner en peligro los E.E.U.U. ciudadanos. Propusieron la legislación titulada los “terroristas de la subsistencia fuera del acto de América,” que barraría a presos de mudanza de Guantánamo al cualquier E.E.U.U. facilidad a menos que sea aprobado por el gobernador y la legislatura del estado de recepción. “Nuestros componentes no desean a estos terroristas en sus vecindades,” dijo a líder Juan A. de la minoría de la casa. Boehner, republicano de Ohio. Varios demócratas también han ensamblado a republicanos en que decían ellos no desean a presos de Guantánamo en sus estados o districtos. Los funcionarios de la administración no han dicho adónde irían los detainees, pero rechazaron la idea que los E.E.U.U. los ciudadanos harían frente a cualquier riesgo de cerrar la prisión por enero. “No vamos a poner a riesgo la seguridad de la gente de este país,” Procurador General de la República Eric H. Jr. del sostenedor. dijo una audiencia del congreso. Algunos observadores dijeron que, en el del congreso eche atrás contra los detainees de Guantánamo, los legisladores aparecieron estén combinando a dos grupos separados de presos: los que han sido despejaron para el lanzamiento porque no plantean una amenaza a los E.E.U.U. seguridad nacional, y otras que serán detenidas en los E.E.U.U. aguardar ensayos en las cortes federales, o quiénes no pueden para ser intentadas sino se juzga demasiado peligroso lanzar. En la categoría anterior están 17 Uighurs étnicos chinos que los E.E.U.U. dice actitud ningún riesgo de la seguridad, pero quiénes se han detenido sin la carga por más de siete años en la bahía de Guantánamo. Su detención continuada fue encontrada ilegal por una corte de districto federal en enero. La corte pidió a Uighurs lanzados en los E.E.U.U. porque no pueden ser vueltos a China dada la amenaza de la tortura allí, y porque ningún otro país ha acordado aceptarlos. But a U.S. Appeals Court reversed that decision when it held that federal courts have no jurisdiction over immigration law and thus are powerless to order the men released into the U.S. even if their continued detention is illegal. The Uighurs’ lawyers, including the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a legal advocacy group, has asked the Supreme Court to hear the case. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed May 8, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) joined the CCR’s plea. Jennifer Chang Newell, a staff attorney with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, said, “The Constitution requires that where a federal court has found a detainee’s imprisonment to be illegal, the court must have the power to order his release – including release into the United States when necessary to end the unlawful detention.” “Permitting the government to hold these men indefinitely violates the Constitution and threatens to render habeas corpus a dead letter,” she said. Uighurs are a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. In related developments, the government announced that two long-imprisoned Guantánamo detainees would soon be released. As indicated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy during President Obama’s recent visit to Europe, France will take in one Guantánamo detainee who has been held prisoner by the U. S. at Guantánamo since 2002. Lakhdar Boumediene, 43, was arrested along with five other Algerians in 2001 in Bosnia, suspected in a bomb attack plot against the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. A U.S. federal judge ruled in November that the evidence against Boumediene was not credible and ordered him set free. Boumediene is well known in legal circles because it was in his name that civil liberties attorneys argued at the U.S. Supreme Court the most recent case of prisoners’ right to seek their release through habeas corpus petitions. The court ruled in favor of the detainees in the case, Boumediene v. Bush. The detainee the U.S. government has now agreed to release is Ayman Batarfi, 38, a Yemeni surgeon who reportedly treated al-Qaeda wounded at Tora Bora in Afghanistan. The government’s decision came as part of a case-by-case review ordered by President Barack Obama to empty the prison camps here by January 2010. Batarfi had told a military review panel in 2005 that he was a humanitarian worker who found himself at the battle of Tora Bora in 2001 while Osama bin Laden was in the area, according to a Pentagon transcript. He said he did not respect the al-Qaeda leader, whom he called “a coward.” Batarfi is the third detainee whose release has been ordered during the Obama administration. In addition to Boumediene and Batarfi, an Ethiopian-born British resident, Binyam Mohamed, was sent back to Britain a month into the Obama administration. Along with five other Guantánamo detainees, Mohamed has filed lawsuits both in the U.S. and Britain. In the U.S., he is suing a subsidiary of the Boeing company, Jeppesen Dataplan, for being complicit with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in facilitating his rendition and torture. While the government invoked the so-called state-secrets privilege to keep the case out of court, a federal appeals court has ruled that the suit should proceed. His British lawsuit charges that British intelligence services cooperated with U.S. authorities in his rendition and torture. The suit has caused a diplomatic furor in Britain, where the foreign secretary, David Miliband, intimated that evidence of British complicity had to be kept secret under threat from the U.S. to stop sharing intelligence with Britain if details were disclosed in court. But the British High Court announced last week that it will reopen its judgment that details of the torture of the former Guantánamo Bay detainee must be kept secret. Clive Stafford Smith, director of the legal charity Reprieve, one of Mohamed’s attorneys, told IPS, “It is long past time that this evidence was made public. How can it be that two governments that purport to uphold the rule of law be working together to cover up crimes committed against Binyam Mohamed?” In the Batarfi case, a major factor in the decision of the Justice Department was a federal judge’s finding that the government improperly withheld important psychiatric records of a government witness who was used in a “significant” number of Guantánamo cases. The judge said the government had censored parts of the records, showing that the witness, a fellow detainee, was being treated for a serious psychological problem. That witness provided information in the government’s case for detaining Batarfi. There are nearly 100 Yemenis among the approximately 240 Guantánamo captives. Bush administration officials never succeeded in negotiating a repatriation agreement for those who had been earlier approved for release. (Inter Press Service) Have Your Say: Congress Resists Guantánamo Releases Please read our posting guidelines before posting. 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