Almerindo Ojeda

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Almerindo Ojeda
Citizenship USA
Known for Director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas

Almerindo Ojeda is a professor of Linguistics at the University of California in Davis.[1][2] He is also the director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas.[3]

He has spoken out about the cooperation between interrogators and health professionals at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[4] In 2008 he quoted one of Salim Ahmed Hamdan's motions, which contained annotations by medical staff that he showed demonstrated that, contrary to claims by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, medical staff were being directed to compromise the captives' when interrogation staff thought it would aid them in their interrogations:

Attached to a recent motion on behalf of Guantanamo prisoner Salim Ahmed Hamdan are medical records stating that, on 8/28/02, an ointment was applied to Mr. Hamdan's lower back and then covered with moleskin--a treatment which the attending medic described as a "special request for medical attention per FBI". In addition, a medical record for the same detainee dated 2/19/04 carries the annotation "no rec time per Intel"--or "no recreation time per Intelligence".[4]

In an interview with Prensa Latina in 2008 Ojeda reported that Majid Khan had chewed threw an artery in of his arms in a suicide attempt in 2006 -- and that this is how he learned of the existence of the formerly secret Camp Platinum.[5]

On May 30, 2008, Ojeda's Guantanamo Testimonials Project broadcast a live video-link interview with Adel Hasan Hamad, Salim Adam and Hammad Ali Amno Gad Allah, three former Sudanese captives.[6]

In July 2011 Ojeda was interviewed by Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio after he broke the story that American interrogators had been employing a previously unacknowledged torture technique -- now known as "dry-boarding".[7] Ojeda had written how court documents showed Ali Saleh al-Marri, a grad student [8] Like "waterboarding" individuals feel they are dying as they experience the first stages of death by suffocation. In "waterboarding" subjects are suffocated by pouring water down their airways. In "dryboarding" subjects go through the first stages of death by suffocation by stuffing rags down their airways. al Marri new developments in the investigation into the reports that suicide attempts in Guantanamo,

Publications

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References

  1. "What Matters to Almerindo Ojeda?". UC Davis. http://www.ls.ucdavis.edu/dss/discover-what-matters/almerindo-ojeda.html. 
  2. "Interview with Almerindo Ojeda". The Moderate Voice. 2009-01-22. http://themoderatevoice.com/25880/interview-with-almerindo-ojeda/. Retrieved 2011-11-12. 
  3. Andy Worthington. "“Brought to Justice? — The Indefinite Detention and Targeted Killing of the Rule of Law”: A KPFA Special with Andy Worthington and David Rovics". http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/02/18/brought-to-justice-the-indefinite-detention-and-targeted-killing-of-the-rule-of-law-a-kpfa-special-with-andy-worthington-and-david-rovics/. Retrieved 2012-08-29. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Stephen Soldz (2008-04-28). "Almerindo Ojeda: Guantánamo healthcare providers serve interrogators". Op ed news. http://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?did=7176. Retrieved 2012-08-29. 
  5. Mike Fuller (2008-02-18). "But, More Problems in Guantánano Cuba". Prensa Latina. http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2008/02/10/9054/but_more_problems_in_guantanano_cuba.html. Retrieved 2012-08-29. "Guantanamo may or may not hold dangerous terrorists. Yet these individuals are entitled, in either case, to a set of fundamental, inalienable, rights as individuals held during an armed conflict, as prisoners in general, and as ordinary human beings. Individuals do not cease to be human when they become terrorists, let alone terrorism suspects, which is all we have in Guantanamo." 
  6. Almerindo Ojeda (2008-05-30). "3 Former Gitmo Prisoners to Address U.S. Audience in Historic Event". Democracy Now. https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/30/18503020.php. Retrieved 2012-08-29. "This weekend, three former Guantanamo prisoners will talk for the first time to a U.S. audience about their prison experiences. The event is being organized by the Guantanamo Testimonials Project, a UC Davis-based effort to catalog accounts of prisoner abuse. I will interview the three former prisoners via videoconference from Sudan." 
  7. Scott Horton (2011-11-08). "Antiwar Radio: Almerindo Ojeda". Antiwar Radio. http://scotthorton.org/2011/11/08/antiwar-radio-almerindo-ojeda/. Retrieved 2012-08-29. 
  8. Almerindo Ojeda (2011-11-03). "Death in Guantanamo: Suicide or Dryboarding?". Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/death-guantanamo-suicide-or-dryboarding/1320182714. Retrieved 2011-11-11. "The news release was categorical with regards to the self-inflicted nature of the deaths. And the camp commander was equally certain of their hostile intent. Yet the news release was curiously guarded about the manner of these deaths - the three "appear" to have hanged themselves with nooses made of bed sheets and clothing, it said."  mirror