Innocent prisoners at Guantánamo torture camp


This video from the USA says about itself:

WikiLeaks Documents Reveal U.S. Knowingly Imprisoned 150 Innocent Men At Guantánamo

The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun releasing thousands of secret documents from the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay that reveal the Bush and Obama administrations knowingly imprisoned more than 150 innocent men for years without charge. In dozens of cases, senior U.S. commanders were said to have concluded that there was no reason for the men to have been transferred to Guantánamo. Among the innocent prisoners were an 89-year-old Afghan villager and a 14-year-old boy who had been kidnapped. Some men were imprisoned at Guantánamo simply because they wore a popular model of Casio watches, which had been used as timers by Al Qaeda.

The documents also reveal that the journalist Sami al-Hajj was held at Guantánamo for six years partly in order to be interrogated about his employer, the Al Jazeera network. Al-Hajj’s file said he was sent to Guantánamo in order to “provide information on … the al-Jazeera news network’s training programme, telecommunications equipment, and newsgathering operations in Chechnya, Kosovo and Afghanistan.” For more we speak with journalist Andy Worthington, author of, “The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison.”

See also here. And here. And here. And here.

Guantanamo documents reveal US brutality and lawlessness: here.

Craig Murray: The chilling orchestration of media propaganda on Guantanamo leaks: here.

How did senile man of 89 and 14-year-old boy kidnapped by the Taliban end up at Guantanamo? Here.

Campaigners maintained today that there is “no evidence” against British resident Shaker Aamer who has been imprisoned without trial in Guantanamo Bay for nine years amid allegations of brutal torture and abuse: here.

Doctors working for the US military ignored or covered up brutal acts of physical and psychological torture at Guantanamo Bay, investigators claimed today: here.

Guantánamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin ‘worked for MI6’: here. And here. And here.

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