Gitmo detainee apparently kills himself

MrBrian
MrBrian Posts: 2,672
edited May 2007 in A Moving Train
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. Critics of the detention center said the death showed the level of desperation among prisoners.

Also Wednesday, a Canadian detainee fired his American attorneys, leaving him without defense counsel ahead of his trial, his former U.S. military attorney told The Associated Press. The detainee, Omar Khadr, is still to be arraigned and is one of only three of the roughly 380 Guantanamo prisoners to be charged with a crime

Defense attorneys said the death was likely an act of desperation at a prison camp where detainees are denied access to U.S. civilian courts and isolated in their cells for up to 22 hours a day.

"You have five and a half years of desperation there with no legal way out," said Michael Ratner, president of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. "Sadly, it leads to people being so desperate they take their own lives."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_suicide
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I know we've all become so amune to these types of news stories, but I still thought It needed to be posted.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    honestly... i'd heard it was cos PJ wouldnt play the South...
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    seriously ... what is the choice here? ... get shot in the head and left to rot by an evil "dictator" or 3 years in a prison with no trial ... left alone for upwards of 22 hrs a day? ... give me the bullet, or the gassing or the chemical weapons ... i'd rather suffer greater for far less time ...

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