Court grants request to block Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo

 

Court grants request to block detained Venezuelan immigrants from being sent to Guantanamo


https://apnews.com/article/immigration-detention-guantanamo-venezuela-new-mexico-ice-8fa3d0d5ef2e0a50061aba04f1a13845

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update

 We have learned bits and pieces of info. ten men from Venezuela have been moved into the prison at the base. It seems they have moved all of the Muslim prisoners into one of the two prisons built by Haliburton back in the day- Camp 5. Up until a few days ago the military commission prisoners were held in Camp 6 and the uncharged were in Camp 5. Now the Muslim prisoners are all together in Camp 5 and the Venezuelan prisoners are in Camp 6. These Venezuelan prisoners are now considered "the worst of the worst." sigh.

And for the rest of the maybe undocumented, they are looking at a tent camp. sigh again.

It seems the tent camp will be on the side where we attorneys were housed (when we visited our clients) and across the Bay from the side of the Island where the prisons are located and most of the military stay.

Read more here, photos too. (again this NYT article was gifted to me).

Cruelty is the point

 Yes, Guantanamo is now taking on new prisoners- people that are being rounded up in my country and thought to be undocumented. Of course, there are many problems with this process- not only is my country clueless as to who is undocumented (they have rounded up several US citizens and people legally in this country in the mix) but also Guantanamo is not physically prepared for this influx of people.

Right now we do not know if the people being sent are going to be placed in the prison? or maybe outdoor cages like the first men sent to Guantanamo. A time like this time when the prison also was not prepared for the influx of people. Or maybe as some are reporting that will be placed in tent camps. (sigh- what could go wrong with that!)

we are watching. we will take action.

Meanwhile Ben Fox- who long reported on Guantanamo after our second worst president started sending Muslim men to the base- writes this for politico;

And Mansoor Adayfi, a former prisoner at the base, shares his concerns here.

(h/o to Walt for sharing the Adayfi op-ed)

And speaking of torture...

I no longer subscribe to the NY Times but this was gifted to me: 

"A Pentagon appeals panel on Thursday upheld a judge’s decision in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case to forbid the use of the defendant’s confession as derived from torture.

The decision by the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review was still under seal. But Allison F. Miller, the lawyer for the defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, said the panel unanimously rejected a U.S. government request to reinstate use of the confession at his upcoming death penalty trial.

Mr. Nashiri is accused of orchestrating the Qaeda suicide bombing attack on the warship in October 2000 in Aden harbor in Yemen. Seventeen soldiers were killed and dozens more were wounded. The trial date is set for Oct. 6, one week shy of the 25th anniversary of that attack."

read the rest here (maybe it will be the gift that keeps giving).

The Torture Guys

 Seems they are working there way back into the trump administration after 4 years off. Steven Bradbury's name did not get the same attention as his counterpart John Yoo but his hands are at least as bloody as Yoo's - if not more so. Now he has landed in the transportation department- same place he worked under trumps first term. I am sure that makes everyone feel safer in the air and on the roads. read more here.