http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2002142143&zsection_id=2002115909&slug=indefed06&date=20050106
http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/995277.htm


Informant: Shanti Renfrew

U.S. Army doctors violated the Geneva Conventions by helping intelligence officers carry out abusive interrogations at military detention centers...

http://207.44.245.159/article7629.htm

Charged with No Crime, Implicated in No Wrongdoing

By ELAINE CASSEL

On Sunday, Jan 2, Dana Priest, writing in the Washington Post, described the plans of the Pentagon and the Justice Department to imprison indefinitely, perhaps for life, persons it wants "removed" from society. Having committed no crime, but believed to be associated with "terrorism" however that is defined at any given moment in time "the people will live in prison camps modeled on American prisons.

http://207.44.245.159/article7625.htm

by Yoram Gat

CounterPunch

01/04/05

The following are forms of maltreatment visited upon prisoners by U.S. personnel during 2004. The list was compiled from articles detailing information in official U.S. documents. Allegations by prisoners that were not supported by official documents were not included...

http://www.counterpunch.org/gat01042005.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Guantanamo is intended to send a message that the internationally accepted norms of justice have been rescinded. From now on, all law proceeds from Washington.

http://207.44.245.159/article7613.htm

A British detainee at Guantanamo Bay has told his lawyer he was tortured using the 'strappado', a technique common in Latin American dictatorships...

http://207.44.245.159/article7595.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Jan05/020105guantanamo.html

Graphic descriptions of abuse in U.S. military prisons around the world -- and questions about civil rights, national security and presidential privilege -- have prompted a growing number of lawsuits against the government and the Bush administration. In the Federal District Court in the Southern District of New York, the ACLU, CCR, Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans for Peace filed suit in June 2004 demanding the release of information on military prisoner treatment. In mid-December, the government began providing that information, which the ACLU says shows abuse of prisoners to be systematic, not an aberration.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=2610