Saturday, March 29, 2014

The ghosts of Guantanamo: Prisoners declared innocent... but never let out. Their jailers driven mad by the horrendous conditions. From the shadow of the original Camp X-Ray, a disturbing report from the grim camp justice forgot


Deserted: Camp X-Ray, pictured is empty and over-run with weeds, while detainees are now housed in Camps V and VI,

It’s 8am and the Star Spangled Banner blares out from a speaker next to McDonald’s. Around me, young men and women in uniform put down their Egg McMuffins and leap to attention to salute the American flag fluttering gently in the Caribbean breeze.
A few miles away, Shaker Aamer, the last British prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, starts his day in an 80sq ft cell where he has been locked up for the past 12 years. The 45-year-old married father of four – who has been cleared for release since 2007 – faces what he calls the ‘living hell’ of being held  without charge inside the world’s most notorious prison.
Last week The Mail on Sunday travelled to the remote US naval base on the tip of Cuba where 154 prisoners from 21 countries remain trapped in legal limbo and where lizards have more rights than humans.

READ MORE:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2592368/The-ghosts-Guantanamo-Prisoners-declared-innocent-never-let-Their-jailers-driven-mad-horrendous-conditions-From-shadow-original-Camp-X-Ray-disturbing-report-grim-camp-justice-forgot.html

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