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Hicks pleads guilty. Howard sighs in relief that this issue will be dead be the next election.

Actually, Hicks plead guilty to one part of the charge, and not guilty to the second. And his guilt or innocence is not the issue: the issue is his treatment, and the treatment of the thousands of other detainees at Guantanamo.

From Amnesty International's About the Military Commissions Act

The past five years have seen the USA engage in systematic violations of international law, with a distressing impact on thousands of detainees and their families. Human rights violations have included:

  • Secret detention
  • Enforced disappearance
  • Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
  • Outrages upon personal dignity, including humiliating treatment
  • Denial and restriction of habeas corpus
  • Indefinite detention without charge or trial
  • Prolonged incommunicado detention
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Unfair trial procedures

Date: 2007-03-27 10:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-beloved.livejournal.com
I just hope the admission doesn't backfire. I could just imagine them now saying "Guilty? Right, we've got you now".

Date: 2007-03-28 08:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strang-er.livejournal.com

Sadly, a "guilty" also means the US doesn't have to worry about the fallout for having done all this to someone subsequently found innocent, in this case at least.

Still, can't say what i would or wouldn't do to get out of a place like that.

Date: 2007-03-28 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-beloved.livejournal.com
Do you think fellow inmates of a maximum security prison here would be ok to him or would they see him in a bad light? I've had differing opinions on this.

I'd hate for him to go from one place of abuse to another.

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