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Template:Context 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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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.
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.
The dead men's identity
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The three men are Yasser Talal Al Zahrani, Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed al-Salami and Mani Shaman Turki al-Habardi Al-Utaybi.
The report quotes official characterizations of the dead men, including citing an Armed Forces Press Service (AFPS) article that quoted DoD official who called the dead men: "...committed jihadists… [who] will do anything they can to advance their cause,"[3] The authors pointed out that the same article said the three dead men were housed in Camp 1, not housed in Camp 5.[4]
The authors pointed out that AFPS article said none of the captives had tried to commit suicide before, and that none of them were considered to be suffering from mental illness.[3]
The report detailed the unsuccessful efforts for the two captives who had lawyers who were trying to meet with them, to help them file writs of habeas corpus. Both teams of lawyers were told that Guantanamo didn't hold anyone at Guantanamo under the names the lawyers were using.
The report quotes the initial Department of Defense denial that any of the men had legal representation.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sgt. Sara Wood, USA (June 10, 2006). "Three Guantanamo Bay Detainees Die of Apparent Suicide". American Forces Press Service. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011024326/http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2006/20060610_5379.html. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ↑ The camp for the most cooperative captives was Camp 4.
