Various participating organizations and human rights organizations and international humanitarian This day in the revival of the World Day to close the Guantanamo prison, which is notorious continuing flagrant departure of all international laws and conventions and a violation of all laws and customs.
After more than four years into the detention of hundreds of detainees the U.S. authorities continue to exercise the right of detainees and the most heinous methods of torture and severe methods of treatment inhuman and degrading treatment in detention under the confidentiality and inform the extreme secrecy and prevent humanitarian organizations from visiting the prison and communication with detainees.
That the rejection by U.S. authorities since the beginning of detention as detainees prisoners of war and therefore not covered by Geneva Convention III of 1949 on the affairs of prisoners of war is illegal and inhumane aim to deal with these detainees away from any legal obligations or a humanitarian force these authorities to give them the rights and privileges recognized in international humanitarian law, which if applied would have been an obstacle to the arbitrariness of U.S. authorities to face in the methods of terrorism, which claims to fight it, but unfortunately in a cycle of mania and the treatment of random and without regard for any legal or moral impediments.
The celebration of this day amid growing international pressure and claims the pressing of various governments, international organizations and humanitarian close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which is a humanitarian tragedy and a model is a moral to the methods of dealing with man, whether innocent or are interested in or guilty in the same context, the Declaration of the White House since the days of the intention of the administration U.S. to give detainees some rights of prisoners of war, but at minimum it confirms once again the size of the embarrassment experienced by this administration, especially after the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court last, which confirmed the illegality of the military tribunals established by President Bush, which represents a single picture violated U.S. law and international law humanitarian. The approval of the U.S. authorities give priority to the detainees treatment within the lower limits of the privileges of the Third Geneva Convention on the rights of prisoners is in itself a victory for the issue of detainees, even if the move came too late and inadequate it is necessary to comply with U.S. authorities to the voices of truth, justice, law and humanity above all, and declares that the detainees must be treated in accordance with the provisions of relevant international conventions out of Guantanamo-filled atmosphere of humiliation, torture and denial of human rights adopted by the divine laws and international conventions.
* Lawyer
Under the families of Saudi detainees in Guantanamo
Okaz newspaper number 1875 Date 5 / August 2006