John Menick's Blog » Guantanamo http://www.johnmenick.com Art, film, prose, and politics Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:11:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Some Links on Guantánamo http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/11/some-links-on-guantanamo http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/11/some-links-on-guantanamo#comments Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:54:30 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/11/10/some-links-on-guantanamo Miami Herald writes, perhaps Rumsfeld's departure will help even more. Then again, can it get any worse than US officials denying access to their clients? From AP:
“If attorneys were kept from visiting Guantanamo, the only information regarding conditions there would be provided by the government,” said Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, a New York lawyer whose Bahraini client tried to commit suicide at Guantánamo last year as Colangelo-Bryan was visiting him.
(Also see Amnesty's page on the detention center, and their new project, Make Some Noise.)]]> http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/11/some-links-on-guantanamo/feed 0 Camp 6 on its way? http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/07/camp-6-on-its-way http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/07/camp-6-on-its-way#comments Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:15:31 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/07/30/camp-6-on-its-way Camp 6, a state-of-the-art maximum-security jail built by a Halliburton subsidiary, will be able to hold 200 prisoners. Commander Robert Durand, a spokesman for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said the $30m, two-storey block was due to open at the end of September. He added: "Camp 6 is designed to improve the quality of life for the detainees and provide greater protection for the people working in the facility." This development will refuel the controversy about the jail, which still holds 450 prisoners from President George Bush's "war on terror". Campaigners pointed to Mr Bush's claim earlier this summer that he would "like to close" Guantanamo. Just weeks after he made his comments in June, the Supreme Court ruled that the administration's system for trying prisoners using military tribunals breached United States and international law.]]> http://www.johnmenick.com/2006/07/camp-6-on-its-way/feed 0