Guantánamo detainee told Geneva rights 'irrelevant'
· Tribunal proceedings revealed in US documents
· Transcript shows Briton's clashes with colonel judge
Monday March 6, 2006
The Guardian
A senior US military officer at Guantánamo Bay told a detainee that he did not care about international law and that the Geneva conventions did not apply to proceedings at the military prison, according to thousands of Pentagon documents released over the weekend by the US government after a court action by the Associated Press news agency.
The outburst by the air force colonel came during a hearing to determine the status of Feroz Abbasi, a Briton held for more than two years without charge or trial, and who was released last year. The officer was presiding over a tribunal convened to decide whether detainees were enemy combatants, as alleged by the Bush administration. Critics dismissed the hearings, called combatant status review tribunals, as kangaroo courts.
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Extracts: Six prisoners' stories
Emad Abdalla, Student, from Yemen
Mr Abdalla, 25, was captured at a university dorm in Faisalabad, where he was studying the Qur'an. He is accused of travelling to Afghanistan to participate in jihad. He spent 19 days in Afghanistan before being taken to Guantánamo Bay.
Abdul Razak, Minister of commerce, Taliban government, Afghanistan
Abdul Razak worked as the minister of commerce in the Taliban government. He said the Taliban had given him a civilian job because he had no military training. After the Taliban's fall, he said he took up farming, but months later Afghan authorities arrested him. At the time he had a Kalashnikov rifle, which his lawyer said he was carrying for protection. Razak said he did not oppose Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government.
more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1724495,00.html