Detainees ссылаются быть данным наркотики для того чтобы Coerce исповеди
Среда 22-ое апрель 2008
Joby Warrick |
Al-Nusairi Adel вспоминает его первые 6 месяцев на заливе Guantanamo как это: часы и часы вопросов, но сперва, игла.
«Я упал бы уснувше» после того как съемка, Nusairi, бывший Saudi полицейский захващенный США. усилия в Афганистане в 2002, вспомнено в интервью с его юристом на воинской тюрьме в Кубе, согласно примечаниям. После быть roused, Nusairi окончательн поговорил, дающ США. должностные лица он более поздно описал как макетированная исповедь для того чтобы купить некоторым миром.
«Я вполне был пойден,» он вспомнил. «I сказало, `препятствовало мне пойти. Я хочу пойти спать. Если оно принимает говорящ меня будет членом al-Qaida, то я буду. '»
Nusairi, теперь освобождает в Саудовской Аравии, было неспособно выучить что снадобья были впрыснуты перед его расспрашиваниями. Он не один в интересовать: По крайней мере 2 дюжин других бывших и в настоящее время detainees на заливе Guantanamo и в другом месте говорят им дало снадобья против их воли или witnessed другим будучи данным наркотики inmates, после того как они основано на интервью и документах суда.
Как Nusairi, другие detainees верили впрыски были предназначены coerce исповеди.
Военное ведомство и C I A, 2 агенства ответственного для задерживать подозреваемые террорисма, оба отказывают использовать снадобья как повышение для расспрашиваний, и предлагают что рассказами от Nusairi и других как он будут или изготовлениями или mistaken толкованиями по заведенному порядку медицинского лечения.
Но заявления resurfaced из-за отпуска этот месяц памятки 2003 отдела правосудия точно condoned польза снадобиь на detainees.
Я написан, что обеспечил законное объяснение для расспрашивания практикует, памятка C. Джон законоведа после этого-Правосудия Отдела. Yoo излучило декад-старые США. запрет на пользе «разум-изменять вещества» на пленниках. Вместо, он поспорил что снадобья смогли быть использованы покуда они inflict перманентность или «глубокомысленное» психологическое повреждение. США. закон «не исключает любым и вся польза снадобиь,» Yoo написала в памятке.
Памятка пробудила новые звоноки для администрации кустика для того чтобы дать полную бухгалтерию своей обработки detainees, и сделать общественной детальной тюрьмой медицинские показатели. Эксперты по правовым вопросам и группы прав человека говорят что forced давать наркотики detainees для любых non-therapeutic причин был определенно тягчайший пролом международных договоров запрещая пытку.
“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.”
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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!