Interrogation in Guantanamo Bay
Essential Facts:
-Guantanamo Bay has a military enforcement team called the IRF (Immediate reaction force) who are a “forced extraction team, specializing in the extraction of a detainee who is combative, resistive, or if [there is] the possibility of a weapon…in the cell at the time of extraction”
*while researching this topic I found little to no information on the IRF and what exactly they do. All the Information came from sources outside the big U.S media conglomerates.
-These teams are of five military men who are assigned a body part to restrain. One former prisoner said he witnessed the abuse by the IRF and suffer serious injuries. He also said that he has seen prisoners be “IRF’ed “while praying or refusing medication
-On January 22, 2009 President Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay within a year but this never happened and the abuse has said to have gotten stronger.
"the total number of Guantanamo detainees to 180. That's far fewer than the almost 800 housed here at the detention centre's population peak several years ago".(PAPERNY)
-The Center for Constitutional Rights have tried to reach out to the Obama administration to end the use of the IRF teams but they have resisted the help of an independent special prosecutor to investigate the abuse claims.
-Even after the pledge by the president to close the prison, one Guantanamo lawyer stated that there have still been claims of abuse that include “beatings, dislocation of limbs, spraying of pepper spray into closed cells, and applying pepper spray to toilet paper”.
telegraph.co.uk
I remember when Guantanamo Bay opened for business, Jaime.
ReplyDeleteAnd I remember when President Obama stated he would close it.
It's still open, but forgotten, mostly, by the mainstream US "news" media.
Excellent work here.
Troubling.
Dr. W