Hello Funny One here. Today I’ve drawn a picture of funny one at gitmo. Here’s a link for the petition.
Prisoners released from the Guantanamo bay camp have said that there was mistreatment of religion including flushing the Quran down the toilet, defacing the Quran, writing things on the Quran, tearing pages out of the Quran and denying copies of the Quran to the detainees.
Three British Muslim prisoners, “Tipton Three”, have said that there was ongoing torture, sexual degradation, forced drugging and religious persecution being committed by U.S. forces at Guantánamo Bay.
The former Guantanamo detainee Mehdi Ghezali was freed without charge on 9 July 2004, after two and a half years imprisonment. Ghezali has said that he was the victim of repeated torture. Omar Deghayes said he was blinded by pepper spray during his detention. Juma Al Dossary said he was interrogated hundreds of times, beaten, tortured with broken glass, barbed wire, burning cigarettes and sexual assaults. David Hicks also said he was tortured and mistreated in Guantánamo Bay, this included sensory deprivation, stress positions, having his head slammed into concrete, routine sleep deprivation and forced drug injections.
Hunger-striking detainees have said that guards were force feeding them in the fall of 2005: “Detainees said large feeding tubes were forcibly shoved up their noses and down into their stomachs, with guards using the same tubes from one patient to another. The detainees say no sedatives were provided during these procedures, which they allege took place in front of U.S. physicians, including the head of the prison hospital.” “A hunger striking detainee at Guantánamo Bay wants a judge to order the removal of his feeding tube so he can be allowed to die, one of his lawyers has said.” Within a few weeks, the Department of Defense “extended an invitation to United Nations Special Rapporteurs to visit detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station.” This was rejected by the U.N. because of the DOD restrictions: “that the three human rights officials invited to Guantánamo Bay wouldn’t be allowed to conduct private interviews” with the prisoners.
In 2005, it was reported that sexual methods were used by female interrogators to break Muslim prisoners.
Despair at extended imprisonment without trial and vagueness of their futures led prisoners to start a widespread hunger strike in May 2013. They are being force fed. During the month of Ramadan that year, the US military claimed that the amount of detainees on hunger strike had dropped from 106 to 81. But according to defense attorney Clive Stafford Smith, “The military are cheating on the numbers as usual. Some detainees are taking a token amount of food as part of the traditional breaking of the fast at the end of each day in Ramadan, so that is now conveniently allowing them to be counted as not striking.”
Many of the released prisoners have complained of persistent beatings, sleep deprivation, prolonged constraint in uncomfortable positions, prolonged hooding, sexual and cultural humiliation, forced injections and other physical and psychological maltreatment during their detention in Camp Delta.
Mohammed al-Qahtani, nicknamed the “20th hijacker of 9/11” was refused entry at Orlando, Florida Airport. That stopped him from his plan to take part in the 9/11 attacks. During his Guantánamo interrogations he was given 3 1/2 bags IV fluid and then he was forbidden to use the toilet and forcing him to soil himself. Some accounts of the treatment that he received are as follows: Water is poured over the detainee. Interrogations start at Midnight and it last 12 hours. When he falls asleep he is then woken up by American pop music and water. Female personnel tries to humiliate and upset him, which is successful. A military dog is used to intimidate him. The soldiers would play the American anthem and force him to salute. They stick pictures of 9/11 victims to him. He is forced to bark like a dog. His beard and hair are shaved. He is stripped nude. Fake menstrual blood is smeared at him and he is forced to wear a women’s bra. Some of the abuses were documented in 2005, when the Interrogation Log of al-Qathani “Detainee 063” was partially published.
The book, Inside the Wire by Erik Saar and Viveca Novak, claims the abuse of prisoners. Saar, a former U.S. soldier at Guantánamo, repeated allegations that a female interrogator ridiculed prisoners sexually and in one occasion wiped what seemed to be menstrual blood on the detainee. Other instances of beatings by the immediate reaction force (IRF) have been reported in the book.
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in June 2005, Dick Cheney defended the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo:
“There isn’t any other nation in the world that would treat people who were determined to kill Americans the way we’re treating these people. They’re living in the tropics. They’re well fed. They’ve got everything they could possibly want.”
Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the methods used to obtain confessions: “…some of the few being tried (only in military courts) have been tortured by waterboarding more than 100 times or intimidated with semiautomatic weapons, power drills or threats to sexually assault their mothers. Astoundingly, these facts cannot be used as a defense by the accused, because the government claims they occurred under the cover of “national security”.
It’s disgusting that they defaced the Quran. That’s a holy book. I am offended by this and also if someone were to deface the bible. That happened in Glasgow, Scotland in 2009. It was at an art exhibition. Here’s a link to a news article so you can see it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201568/Art-exhibition-encourages-visitors-deface-Bible.html
Also I’m of course against torture. It doesn’t matter what religion a person is, you shouldn’t torture them. It’s never right. Dick Cheney claims that, “They’ve got everything they could possibly want.” What? Being blinded by pepper spray, beaten, tortured with broken glass, barbed wire, burning cigarettes, sleep deprivation, prolonged hooding, sexual and cultural humiliation, forced injections, being stripped nude, intimidated with semiautomatic weapons, power drills or threats to sexually assault their mothers. But it’s ok because Dick Cheney says so. But let’s not forget who opened Guantanamo Bay Detention. That was George W. Bush.
Anyways, I’ll be saying my prayer for all affected by prison.
The Prisoners Week Prayer
Lord, you offer freedom to all people.
We pray for those who are held in prison.
Break the bonds of fear and isolation that exist.
Support with your love: prisoners, their families and friends,
prison staff, chaplains and all who care.
Heal those who have been wounded by the activities of others,
especially the victims of crime.
Help us to forgive one another, to act justly, to love mercy,
and walk humbly together with Christ
in his strength and in his Spirit,
now and every day.
Amen.
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