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Los Detainees alegan ser narcotizado para forzar confesiones
Martes 22 de abril de 2008
El al-Nusairi de Adel recuerda sus primeros seis meses en la bahía de Guantánamo como esto: horas y horas de preguntas, pero primero, una aguja. “Me caería dormido” después de que el tiro, Nusairi, policía Saudi anterior capturado por los E.E.U.U. fuerzas en Afganistán en 2002, recordado en una entrevista con su abogado en la prisión militar en Cuba, según notas. Después de ser roused, Nusairi habló eventual, dando los E.E.U.U. funcionarios qué él describió más adelante como confesión construida para comprar una cierta paz. “Me fueron totalmente,” él recordé. “I dijo, `me dejó ir. Deseo ir a dormir. Si me toma diciendo es un miembro del al-Qaida. '” Nusairi, ahora libera en la Arabia Saudita, no podía aprender qué drogas fueron inyectadas antes de sus interrogaciones. Él no está solo en preguntarse: Por lo menos dos docena otros detainees anteriores y actuales en la bahía de Guantánamo y a otra parte dicen que les dieron las drogas contra su voluntad o que fueron atestiguados otros internos que eran narcotizados, basado en entrevistas y documentos de la corte. Como Nusairi, otros detainees creyeron que las inyecciones fueron pensadas para forzar confesiones. El departamento de la defensa y Cia, las dos agencias responsables de detener a sospechosos del terrorismo, ambos niegan el usar de las drogas como realce para las interrogaciones, y sugieren que las historias de Nusairi y de otros como él son fabricaciones o interpretaciones equivocadas del tratamiento médico rutinario. Con todo las alegaciones han vuelto a allanar debido a el lanzamiento este mes de una nota 2003 del departamento de la justicia que perdonó explícitamente el uso de drogas en detainees. Escrito para proporcionar la justificación legal para la interrogación practica, la nota del abogado Juan C. de entonces-Justicia Department. Yoo rechazó un década-viejos E.E.U.U. interdicción en el uso de “mente-alterar sustancias” en presos. En lugar, él discutió que las drogas podrían ser utilizadas mientras no infligieran permanente o daño psicologico “profundo”. LOS E.E.U.U. la ley “no imposibilita cualesquiera y todo el uso de drogas,” Yoo escribió en la nota. La nota ha incitado las nuevas llamadas para que la administración de Bush dé una contabilidad completa de su tratamiento de detainees, y haga prisión detallada pública expedientes médicos. Legal experts and human rights groups say that forced drugging of detainees for any non-therapeutic reasons would be a particularly grave breach of international treaties banning torture. “The use of drugs as a form of restraint of prisoners is both unlawful and unethical,” said Leonard Rubenstein, an expert on medical ethics and the president of Physicians for Human Rights. “These allegations demand a full inquiry by Congress and the Department of Justice.” So far, the evidence is limited to the accounts of detainees who describe similar episodes in which they were forcibly given drugs and experienced unnatural physical effects ranging from extreme drowsiness to hallucinations. U.S. military officials have acknowledged using only therapeutic drugs, such as vitamins and vaccines, on Guantanamo Bay detainees. “Our policy is, and always has been, to treat detainees humanely,” said Navy Cmdr. J.D. Gordon, a Pentagon spokesman. “The use of medication to manipulate a detainee has never been an approved DOD interrogation technique.” While declining to comment on specific claims, Gordon said medical care was provided “based solely upon a detainee’s need,” adding that the interrogations did not affect or influence medical treatment. Former U.S. intelligence officials have acknowledged using sedatives to subdue some terrorism suspects as they were being transported from one facility to another, but likewise insist that drugs were never used as interrogation tools. Several former military and intelligence officials familiar with the detention program said they were unaware of any systematic use of drugs to manipulate behavior. Alberto J. Mora, a former Navy general counsel who opposed the Bush administration’s decision to use aggressive interrogation tactics, said he recalled no discussions about the use of drugs. But Mora said he understood why some detainees are concerned. “They knew they were being injected with something, and it is clear from all accounts that some suffered severe psychological damage,” Mora said. The injections left a searing impression among some former detainees, said Emi MacLean, a lawyer for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents dozens of current and former detainees. She said the stories merit investigation in light of the Yoo memo and the record of previous CIA experiments with truth serums as well psychotropic drugs. “Many speak about forced medication at Guantanamo without knowledge about what medication they were being forced to take,” MacLean said. “For some released [military] detainees, the forced medication they experienced was the most traumatic part” of their captivity. Nusairi is among a handful of former detainees who directly allege the use of drugs in interrogations at the military prison in Guantanamo. Others described being forcibly given sedatives that knocked them out or made them groggy before being transferred, or being forced to take pills or receive shots for unclear reasons and suffering unusual symptoms afterward. Detainees, in interviews or in statements provided by their attorneys, described pills and injections being forcibly administered for reasons that were not always clear to them. Mourad Benchellali, a French national who was held for three years at Guantanamo Bay, said that prison workers sometimes described the medications as antibiotics or vitamins, yet they frequently left him in a mental fog. J. Wells Dixon, another Center for Constitutional Rights attorney who represents detainees, said the government appears to have administered drugs to detainees whose extended captivity made them distraught or rebellious. “Many of these men have become desperately suicidal,” Dixon said. “And the government’s response has been to administer more medication, often without the consent of the prisoners.” Have Your Say: Detainees Allege Being Drugged To Coerce Confessions Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. One Response to “Detainees Allege Being Drugged To Coerce Confessions”
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Good post. I hope that the truth comes out as the detainees do. Since starting freedetainees.org, no even before when I first started researching the subject there were many times I wondered if something was being exaggerated. But I found out that it wasn’t.
Thanks to those of you who post this - people need to hear it!
BRAVO!