Pak Sahafat – On January 11, 2002, the US Army transferred its prisoners in the global war against terrorism to the Guantanamo prison in Cuba. This action is one of the longest and darkest misbehavior of this country against terrorism suspects.
According to the report of Pak Sahafat News Agency from Global Times on Tuesday, in recent years, hundreds of Muslim men have been secretly detained and subjected to physical and mental abuse without trial, some of which are equivalent to torture.
According to a report published by the New York Times in July 2022, the United States has detained 780 men, all of whom are Muslims, in the Guantanamo prison since the September 11 attacks; this is despite the fact that many of these people had no connection with the Al-Qaeda organization.
So far, 9 people arrested in this prison have died.
Although the former President of the United States, Barack Obama, in 2009, demanded the closure of this prison within a year, 36 people are still under arrest in this prison.
From the beginning, Guantanamo was a structure designed to circumvent domestic and international legal oversight. The prison, a detention facility located on a U.S. naval base on foreign soil, provides Washington with complete access control while avoiding any unsavory domestic legal oversight.
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The Bush administration called the people detained in this prison as “unlawful combatants”, which was a new term instead of the conventional and traditional term “prisoners of war”. This naming tactic made America more open-handed in the way it treats detained people. Since the United States is one of the 196 countries that signed and ratified the 1949 Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, it must meet minimum standards for them. The member states of this treaty must allow the International Committee of the Red Cross access to the detained persons and prevent violence and torture against them.
With the permission of the American government and the military of this country, the CIA used beatings, sleep deprivation, loud noises, solitary confinement, severe cold, sexual humiliation, and artificial drowning to make them confess in their interrogation methods.
During the last two decades, the Guantanamo prison has been one of the most controversial topics. This prison is one of the main symbols of human rights violations by America in the name of defending national security. This prison showed that America completely violates human rights and humane treatment of detainees in the name of fighting terrorism.
Many in America still do not understand how the CIA and the US military have systematically violated the rights of foreign Muslims imprisoned in this prison over the past two decades.
Despite the existing controversies, the United States continues its inhumane actions regarding the suspects of terrorist acts, transferring them to its military bases and torturing them.
Global Times wrote at the end of its article: The truth must be told. Justice must be done. Mistakes must be corrected. Those responsible for terrorist attacks should be held accountable to the law and take steps to compensate for their crimes. Also, those who imprisoned, tortured and killed innocent men and women, boys and girls in the name of fighting terrorism.