Archivo etiqueta «Guantánamo»
Por Joan J. Queralt, catedrático de Derecho Penal de la UB (EL PERIÓDICO, 05/03/10):
Estados Unidos no solo quiere cerrar Guantánamo, lugar que nunca debería haber abierto, sino que debe cerrarlo, pues el periodo de gracia que le han dispensado sus tribunales hace ya un par de años que caducó. Primero fueron las admisiones de las demandas de los allí ilegítimamente detenidos, aceptado que su indebida privación de libertad pudiera ser revisada por los tribunales civiles norteamericanos pese a la plétora de disposiciones tan absurdas como antijurídicas que pretendían cubrir las vergüenzas que seguían a la vista de todos.
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Par Frédéric Koller (LE TEMPS, 27/01/10):
La décision que doit prendre le Conseil fédéral concernant l’accueil de deux Ouïgours (des Chinois musulmans), ex-détenus de Guantanamo, est un casse-tête dont la résolution sera révélatrice de ses choix diplomatiques et de l’affirmation ou non de certains de ses principes. Cette décision, pour caricaturer, irritera soit les Etats-Unis et les défenseurs des droits de l’homme, soit la Chine et les représentants des milieux économiques. En d’autres termes, le choix final pourrait être déterminé par l’évaluation des moindres dommages collatéraux.
Bien sûr, Berne pourrait s’en sortir par une pirouette en invoquant des problèmes techniques… Seguir leyendo
Par Philippe Currat, avocat et spécialiste des droits de l’homme (LE TEMPS, 13/01/10):
Guantanamo résonne dans tous les Etats de droit comme un avertissement. C’est l’exemple d’une dérive sécuritaire totalitaire qui méprise l’ordre constitutionnel, les droits fondamentaux, l’Etat de droit, la démocratie. Guantanamo, c’est l’exemple de l’arbitraire, tant il a été démontré que les personnes qui y sont détenues ne sont le plus souvent coupables d’aucun crime. Guantanamo est une abomination qui marquera durablement du seing de l’infamie une démocratie pourtant fondatrice. La mise en place d’un tel lieu de détention est bien davantage qu’une erreur, c’est une faute et… Seguir leyendo
By Jack Goldsmith, who teaches at Harvard Law School and served as an assistant attorney general in the Bush administration and Benjamin Wittes, a former Post editorial writer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the editor of Legislating the War on Terror: An Agenda for Reform. Both are members of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on National Security and Law (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/12/09):
Since U.S. forces started taking alleged terrorists to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the task of crafting American detention policy has migrated decisively from the executive branch to federal judges. These judges, not experts in terrorism… Seguir leyendo
By Dimitrina Petrova, the director of The Equal Rights Trust (ERT) (THE GUARDIAN, 19/12/09):
The decision by President Obama to move 100 detainees from Guantánamo Bay to the Thomson Correctional Centre in Illinois has drawn criticism from across the spectrum. But amid the controversy, the fact that one of the biggest barriers to closure of Guantánamo remains in place has been largely ignored.
Of the estimated 110 detainees who will be neither transferred to Thomson nor moved to New York to stand trial for the 9/11 attacks, many are stateless. These men remain in detention not because they are awaiting… Seguir leyendo
By Judith Miller, a contributing editor of City Journal, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Fox News contributor (THE GUARDIAN, 25/09/09):
It’s been a busy summer at the Guantánamo Bay detention centre. The joint task force in charge of the 226 remaining detainees is spending about $440,000 to expand the recreation yards at Camp 6. At nearby Camp 4, which offers communal living for the most “compliant” captives, the soccer yard is being enlarged. At Camp 5, a maximum-security facility, a $73,000 classroom is under construction. In March, the task force added art classes to the thrice-weekly… Seguir leyendo
By Joseph Finder, who writes frequently on intelligence issues, is the author, most recently, of the novel Vanished (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 30/08/09):
Earley in 2002, Eric Holder, then a former deputy attorney general, said on CNN that the detainees being held at Guantánamo Bay were “not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention,” particularly “given the way in which they have conducted themselves.”
Six years later, declaring that “Guantánamo Bay is an international embarrassment,” Mr. Holder said, “I never thought I would see the day when … the Supreme Court would have to order the… Seguir leyendo
By Clive Stafford Smith is the director of Reprieve, the UK legal action charity (THE TIMES, 01/08/09):
Disappointment has rippled through the ranks of Obama supporters in recent weeks, with the reviving of Guantánamo military courts and other backtracking in the War on Terror. More worrying still, in Afghanistan, Bagram Air Force Base has become Guantánamo’s evil twin sister — and a bloated twin at that, with a new $50 million prison bringing the number of inmates to more than 1,500, none of whom has ever caught sight of a lawyer or a legal right.
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By Chisun Lee, a lawyer and a reporter for ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative-reporting group (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/07/09):
As the Obama administration and Congress try to forge a legal framework for detaining suspected terrorists, they might want to take a close look at what’s happening at the federal district courthouse just a short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from both the White House and the Capitol.
Trial judges there have quietly decided 31 of some 200 cases brought by Guantánamo inmates seeking freedom. Dossier by dossier, the jurists have answered the core questions that policy experts have been addressing in… Seguir leyendo
By Barry Wingard, a lieutenant colonel in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard and an Air Force judge advocate general. He began his career in the Army as an enlisted infantry soldier (THE WASHINGTON POST, 01/07/09):
Like his fellow prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Kuwaiti detainee Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari hoped that President Obama’s election would finally bring justice. Judges, not political appointees, would prevail and restore the rule of law.
Unfortunately, nothing seems to have changed. The Obama administration is reportedly considering an executive order that would “reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely,” and the situation at the prison… Seguir leyendo
By Peter Bergen, a senior fellow and Katherine Tiedemann, a program associate at the New America Foundation (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29/05/09):
Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul and Said Ali al-Shihri may be the two best arguments for why releasing detainees from Guantánamo Bay poses a real risk to America. Mr. Rasoul, who was transferred to Afghanistan in 2007 and then released by the Kabul government, is now the commander of operations for the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Mr. Shihri, sent back to his native Saudi Arabia in 2007, is now a leader of Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen.
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By Tim Reid, Washington correspondent (THE TIMES, 27/05/09):
There is a narrative about the prison at Guantánamo Bay that has stubbornly clung to the collective conscience since those first, notorious photographs emerged in early 2002 of the detainees in orange jumpsuits shackled inside open-air cages and ferried to interrogation sessions in wooden wheelbarrows.
Combined with a litany of Red Cross reports alleging abuse and torture inside the jail, and terrible tales of beatings told by many of the 550 inmates who have been released in the past seven years, the common assumption is this: Guantánamo Bay is a modern-day gulag,… Seguir leyendo
By Jim Moran, a Democrat who represents Virginia’s 8th District in the U.S. House (THE WASHINGTON POST, 09/05/09):
Obama administration officials say a final decision has not been made about where to relocate the 241 foreign nationals being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and/or where to put them on trial. Such public statements, though, have not stopped rumors about which federal prisons or military brigs might be used to house the detainees. Indeed, the Keep Terrorists Out of America Act introduced this week and other legislation seek to prevent detainees from being sent to certain states or taxpayer… Seguir leyendo
By Julia E. Sweig, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Inside the Cuban Revolution and the forthcoming Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know. CFR research associate Michael Bustamante contributed to this article (THE WASHINGTON POST, 03/05/09):
President Obama has promised to shut down the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, seeking to erase a blot on America’s global image. He has also reached out to Cuba, easing some travel and financial restrictions in an effort to recast Washington’s approach to the island. These two initiatives have proceeded on separate tracks so far, but now… Seguir leyendo
Por Reyes Mate, profesor de Investigación del CSIC en el Instituto de Filosofía (EL PAÍS, 02/05/09):
El candidato a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos Barack Obama se fijó en Guantánamo para visibilizar el cambio que prometía, por eso, al día siguiente de su toma de posesión anunció el cierre de ese extraño lugar, declarando ilegal la tortura que allí se practicaba. Era un gesto ético que debía devolver la confianza de sus conciudadanos en los valores humanitarios sobre los que se había construido el país y que había que mantener “también en tiempos difíciles”.
Pero la ética tiene sus… Seguir leyendo