I am afraid this will taint anyone who would marry me. I worry that he would divorce me, and that would pitch me into a situation that is even worse. So, I will get married only when you are released. This is the situation for my children. I weep to think of the terror that fills them because of where I am. Every time I say I will be released, now that more than 18 years have gone by, they think it is false.
It will be covered in flowers, but my body will have rotted by the time it travels halfway around the world to Karachi. They describe how even the flowers on the coffin would have been picked in , when I was taken, and they, too, are dead now. Who will take care of the psychological pain that my children are going through?
Who will agree to marry them? Which commercial company will agree to employ my children when they finish their studies? I am forgotten here, and my future is entirely lost. Yet far more important to me is the future of my children, which has been stolen by this awful prison. The military trial to begin for three men, who are suspected of involvement in deadly bombings in Indonesia. Life for one of the last Afghans in the detention facility defined by hunger strikes, force feedings and isolation.
Muhammad Rahim, who is one of the two Afghans held in the notorious detention centre, could potentially have cancer. But reports of hunger strikes and attempted suicides have continued to emerge from the base. Military officials have confirmed 25 suicide attempts by 17 people since the inception of the camp, with 15 this year, often by inmates attempting to strangle themselves. One detainee who reportedly fell into a coma after trying to hang himself was back off life support this week, Lt Col Johnson said, but there was no word on what the authorities would do with him next.
The Pentagon has published regulations for how the inmates, who come from 42 countries, might be tried by military tribunals, but has not yet nominated any of them for trial. The US court of appeals ruled last month that the government was entitled to deny due legal process to the detainees because they are not Americans and are not being held on US territory. The three boys are not the only inmates under 16 to have been brought to Guantanamo Bay.
Canadian officials have been seeking for months to gain access to Omar al-Khadr, a Canadian national who they say is being held at Camp Delta after being captured on July 27 during fighting in eastern Afghanistan. Detainees were shackled when outside their cells. Pakistani detainee Shah Mohammed Alikhil described one aspect of the camp living conditions:.
I was told to call on guards if I wanted to go to the latrine or wash. On entering the latrine our hands were let loose, and on getting out of the latrine our hands were re-shackled.
And on entering my cell my hands were let loose. It was a boring routine. We were allowed to bathe twice a week. But we could only use the toilet at the discretion of the guards and often they would not allow us to use the toilet when we needed to. Some guards treated us OK. Others were bad. The bad ones did not help us or give us the bare necessities such as toilet paper, etc. Also detainees were not allowed to talk to each other.
On March 12, the Commission authorized precautionary measures in favor of detainees being held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The request also claimed that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay were at risk of irreparable harm because the United States refused to treat the detainees as prisoners of war until a competent tribunal determined otherwise in accordance with the Third Geneva Convention of Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, because the detainees had been held arbitrarily, incommunicado and for a prolonged period of time and had been interrogated without access to legal counsel, and because certain detainees were at risk of trial and possible death sentences before military commissions that failed to comply with established principles of international law.
After deliberating upon the request during its th regular period of sessions, the Commission decided to request that the United States take the urgent measures necessary to have the legal status of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay determined by a competent tribunal.
As explained in its March 12, communication to the State, the Commission's decision was based upon, inter alia, its finding that doubts existed as to the legal status of the detainees, including the question of whether and to what extent the Third Geneva Convention or other provisions of international humanitarian law applied to some or all of the detainees and what implications this may have for their international human rights protections, and that absent clarification of the legal status of the detainees, the Commission considered that the rights and protections to which they may be entitled under international or domestic law could not be said to be the subject of effective legal protection by the State.
Consequently, without prejudging the possible application of international humanitarian law to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the Commission considered that precautionary measures were both appropriate and necessary in the circumstances, in order to ensure that the legal status of each of the detainees was clarified and that they would be afforded the legal protections commensurate with that status. The Commission also asked for information from the State within 30 days on compliance with the Commission's measures and thereafter on a periodic basis.
In communications dated April 11, and July 15, the State provided the Commission with information and arguments in which it disputed the Commission's jurisdiction to adopt the precautionary measures, and the Petitioners responded to the State's April 11, observations in a communication dated May 13, Upon considering these additional communications, in notes to the parties dated July 23, , the Commission informed the State and the Petitioners that it had decided to maintain the precautionary measures requested in its March 12, communication to the United States and to reiterate its request for information concerning the measures taken to implement the Commission's request.
The Commission also expressed concern with respect to additional information provided by the Petitioners indicating that the manner in which certain detainees at Guantanamo Bay were captured raised reasonable doubts concerning whether they belong to the enemy's armed forces or related groups. These detainees were alleged to include six Algerian citizens arrested by U. The Commission indicated that without more, this information raised further serious concerns regarding the legal status of each of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay and the international rights and protections to which they may have been entitled.
Further, on October 16, during its th regular period of sessions, the Commission convened a hearing on the precautionary measures at the request of the Petitioners.
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