{"id":32281,"date":"2013-05-09T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/gitmo-blackens-us-human-rights-record\/32281\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T19:15:00","slug":"gitmo-blackens-us-human-rights-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/gitmo-blackens-us-human-rights-record\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gitmo blackens US human rights record\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>The Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba has blackened the already-dark history of human rights atrocities committed by the US government, a political analyst tells <strong>Press TV<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese illegal activities of incarcerating and torturing is just something that is a huge black eye on the human rights for the United States, and it has really gone downhill in the past 20 years,\u201d said former intelligence linguist Scott Rickard on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The expert said the notorious prison would continue to keep detainees despite US President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cpromise to close these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On April 30, Obama promised once again to close the prison, currently housing 166 detainees, most of which have been cleared for release or were never charged.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In fact, the United States has been engaged in a perpetual, covert war on terror \u201cfor a couple of decades or more\u2026 and they claim that they can keep these people [in prison] because the war has not ended,\u201d the Rickard said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has urged the Obama administration to mend the situation in Guantanamo, which has compelled at least 130 prisoners to starve themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This is while the United Nations human rights office condemned the force-feeding of the hunger strikers, saying it amounts to torture and violates international law.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the US president\u2019s failed policies, Rickard said \u201cObama is yet another puppet\u201d to the prison and \u201cthe banking folks that really run the show in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US government has a long history of colonialism and imperialism, committing acts of terror including those during the campaigns in \u201cSyria and Libya\u2026 the Vietnam War\u2026 and the American Indian [genocide],\u201d Rickard concluded.<\/p>\n<p>GMA\/MHB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This article originally appeared on : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/05\/09\/302691\/gitmo-blackens-us-human-rights-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018Gitmo blackens US human rights record\u2019\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba has blackened the already-dark history of human rights atrocities committed by the US government, a political analyst tells Press TV. \u201cThese illegal activities of incarcerating and torturing is just something that is a huge black eye on the human rights for the United States, and it has really gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}