C-SPAN: Guantanamo detainees describe their captivity

C-SPAN is running a program entitled "Voices of Guantanamo" in which former detainees and those who have been to the prison describe what really goes on there. Taped at the George Washington University Law School, it's a chilling rendition of how our government is treating those rounded up in Afghanistan and elsewhere as so-called "enemy combatants." Less than half have been charged, few have come to trial, and a handful have been released. For the video, go here.

It appears that many in Guantanamo are simply ordinary Afghanis caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Others were turned in for money — lots of money — offered by the U.S. military. Many, maybe most, are innocent.

As this is being written, there is no mention in the U.S. mass media — only on C-SPAN. For more information from other sources, see:

'If there was justice I would not be wrapped in death shroud now'
Gulf Daily News

A CHILLING letter intended as a message from the grave has been released by lawyers for Bahraini Guantanamo detainee Juma Al Dossary. It was written the day before he tried to hang himself from the mesh walls of his cage, during a visit by lawyer Joshua Colangelo-Bryan.

Mr Al Dossary clearly expected to be dead by the time it was read, even apologising to Mr Colangelo-Bryan for "dying in front of your eyes".

"There was no other alternative to make our voice heard from the depths of the detention centre, except for this way," he says in the letter, written on October 14 last year, but only just released.

The US military has only just cleared the letter, handed to Mr Colangelo-Bryan by Mr Al Dossary just before he slipped out of an interview on the pretext of going to the lavatory - and tried to kill himself.

Former Guantanamo Detainees Promote A Movie About Their Experience
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com

Washington - The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay was "like a zoo" where inmates were kept in cages 24 hours a day and were prevented from lying down, a former detainee said.

Ex-Guantanamo detainees take their story to American public
Gulf Times

WASHINGTON: Former British prisoners of the controversial US-run detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba recounted on Monday their experiences for the first time directly to the US public, organisers said.

US military lawyer slams Guantanamo procedures
Holly Manges Jones
JURIST, from the University of Pittsburg School of Law

Maj. Michael Mori, the US Marine Corps lawyer representing Australian terror suspect David Hicks in military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, said Monday that the "imbalanced system" at Guantanamo presents a significant risk that innocent individuals will be convicted while truly guilty suspects are given an avenue to challenge their convictions.

Guantanamo detainees describe life
Beth Gorham, The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - They described the horrific and the mundane. Stories of beatings, hunger strikes, desperate months in isolation. And interrogators who asked their favourite colour.