June 10th Suicides at Guantánamo
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June 10th Suicides at Guantánamo is the title of a report published by Professor Mark P. Denbeaux of the Seton Hall University School of Law, his son Joshua Denbeaux, and some of his law students, on August 21, 2006.[1] Mark Denbeaux and Joshua Denbeaux represent two of the Guantanamo detainees in their writ of habeas corpus. The law students who contributed to the report are: David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards, Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, Megan Sassaman and Helen Skinner.
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[edit] The Guantanamo detainees
US President George W. Bush established a policy for the treatment of captives taken in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, in which those captives would not be protected by the Geneva Conventions.[2]
759 men ended up being held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
Many released detainees described the brutality and open-ended nature of their incarceration to have triggered in numerous detainees a state of suicidal despair.
[edit] Executive Summary
Among the conclusions in the report's Executive Summary were:[1]
- The Government [incorrectly] reported that none of the three detainees was represented by counsel at the time that they died.
- Federal District Court records reveal the Government thwarted repeated attempts by the three men's attorneys to communicate with their clients.
- The detainees died without information that might have given them hope. One died not knowing that he was to be released to his homeland, Saudi Arabia; a second detainee died without seeing a videotape from his father asking him to cooperate with his American legal counsel.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Mark P. Denbeaux et al, June 10th Suicides at Guantánamo, Seton Hall University School of Law, August 21, 2006
- ^ Guantanamo detainees routinely denied witnesses, evidence in hearings, report finds, International Herald Tribune, November 16, 2006
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