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O Congress resiste liberações de Guantánamo
Terça-feira, maio 12o, 2009
Enquanto os lawmakers amped acima do outcry de encontro a liberar Guantánamo “terroristas em nossas vizinhanças,” France concordou aceitar um prisioneiro “cancelado” de Guantánamo e umas direitas que humanas os grupos continuaram a pressionar para uma liberação de 17 Uighurs chineses os ESTADOS UNIDOS. o governo não declarou para ser nenhuma ameaça à segurança nacional. O comitê de apropriações Democrático-conduzido da casa última semana passou uma conta para financiar as guerras em Iraq e em Afeganistão mas descascou mais de $50 milhões que o presidente Barack Obama tinha pedido fechando a prisão e começando o relocation de seus 240 prisioneiros. Os Lawmakers de ambos os partidos exijiram que o presente da administração de Obama uma planta para fechar Guantánamo e detalhar o que seria feito com seus inmates. Os lawmakers republicanos disseram que a edição é um exemplo da fraqueza de Obama na segurança nacional e acusam o presidente de pôr em perigo ESTADOS UNIDOS. cidadãos. Propuseram a legislação intitulada do “os terroristas sustento fora do ato de América,” que barraria prisioneiros móveis de Guantánamo a todos os ESTADOS UNIDOS. facilidade a menos que aprovado pelo regulador e pela legislatura de estado de recepção. “Nossos constituents não querem estes terroristas em suas vizinhanças,” disse o líder John A. do Minority da casa. Boehner, um republicano de Ohio. Diversas democratas juntaram também os republicanos que dizem nelas não querem prisioneiros de Guantánamo em seus estados ou distritos. Os oficiais da administração não disseram aonde os detidos iriam, mas rejeitaram a idéia que ESTADOS UNIDOS. os cidadãos enfrentariam todos os riscos de fechar a prisão por janeiro. “Nós não estamos indo pôr em risco a segurança dos povos deste país,” Attorney General Eric H. Jr. do suporte. disse um hearing congressional. Alguns observadores disseram que, no congressional pushback de encontro aos detidos de Guantánamo, lawmakers apareceram conflating dois grupos separados dos prisioneiros: aqueles que foram cancelaram para a liberação porque não pose uma ameaça a ESTADOS UNIDOS. segurança nacional, e outra que será detida nos ESTADOS UNIDOS. esperar experimentações nas cortes federais, ou quem não podem ser tentadas mas são julgadas demasiado perigoso para se liberar. Na categoria anterior estão 17 Uighurs étnicos chineses que os ESTADOS UNIDOS. diz o pose nenhum risco da segurança, mas quem foram detidas sem carga por sobre sete anos na baía de Guantánamo. Seu detention continuado foi encontrado ilegal por uma corte de distrito federal em janeiro. A corte requisitou os Uighurs liberados nos ESTADOS UNIDOS. porque não podem ser retornados a China dada a ameaça da tortura lá, e porque nenhum outro país concordou os aceitar. 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. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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