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NEW YORK — Amnesty International is currently touring the country with a life-sized replica of a maximum security prison cell at Guantánamo Bay. But critics say the cell, which is an attempt to call attention to alleged human rights abuses at the camp, is missing basic amenities provided to prisoners.
The 7x10-foot cell, on display on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., lacks amenities like bedding, toiletries and a copy of the Koran, and it has nothing to illustrate that regular meals are served to inmates three times a day.
• Click here to see more photos of protests and real Guantanamo Bay cells.
Amnesty International-USA said the cell, which contains a toilet, sleeping bunk and a small window, is meant to symbolize the U.S. government's alleged mistreatment of detainees at the prison.
It said the tour is designed to increase public awareness and mount pressure on the Bush administration and Congress to close down the U.S.-controlled detention center. The group planned its display in Washington to coincide with a House Judiciary subcommittee's hearing on harsh interrogation techniques.
But Charles "Cully" Stimson, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, lashed out against Amnesty's campaign, calling it a "complete fraud in misrepresenting the condition of detention at Gitmo today."
"They are just perpetuating a tired, old lie," Stimson told FOXNews.com. He said that Amnesty's description of conditions at the prison differs significantly from other accounts detailing the treatment of detainees over the last six years.
He pointed out that many detainees "enjoy more than 10 hours a day of recreation time at Guantánamo, which is more than any prisoner in any prison in the United States."
"The cells at Gitmo are the same size and the same design as those throughout the United States," he said. "And the Federal Bureau of Prisons has gone to the prison over the years and if we asked them to do it again they would certify those facilities as compliant with the standards for American jails and prisons."
"Amnesty should be ashamed of itself, but they’re not," he said.
But Amnesty-USA's media relations director Sharon Sing told FOXNews.com that critics like Stimson are missing the point by focusing on the amenities, which Sing described as "comfort items."
The purpose of the display, Sing said, is to protest "the U.S. government's detention of people without charge or trial for six years."
The tour, which kicked off on May 8th in Miami, has attracted hundreds of supporters as it travelled through cities such as Philadelphia and Portland, Maine.
On Wednesday, Amnesty International supporters and other activists gathered on the National Mall to voice their support for immediate closure of the prison facility.
Several protestors dressed in Guantánamo-style orange jumpsuits and held signs calling for the U.S. government to stop the alleged torture of detainees and shut down the prison. Amnesty said it plans to continue the tour through other cities in the Midwest and West.
Sing said that tour will wrap up when Guantánamo closes.
"We work on human rights around the world and that includes the United States," Sing said.
But Stimson said the human rights group is prompted by ulterior motives.
"Amnesty is doing this simply to raise money," he said, adding that he wished the organization would focus its resources instead on "actual human rights abuses that are occurring around the world."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,372467,00.html
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Were any of them oiled up, and flexing in thongs?
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load them into meat grinders and feed their chum to pigs
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Joe, how long have you and ol' pinkshirt been an item?
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Joe, how long have you and ol' pinkshirt been an item?
Oh, clutch the pearls!
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Post in the Politics forums, fuckface
You get run outta there because you're unable to refute any of their points, so you come here where you know there's a higher level of retarded posters
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nobody wants that politics bulllchit in here
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That smile on Joe's face cracks me up every time I see this pic
he looks damn happy - almost in a state of bliss
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Post in the Politics forums, fuckface
You get run outta there because you're unable to refute any of their points, so you come here where you know there's a higher level of retarded posters
The Politics Board is a circle jerk session for internet psudo intellectual cut and paste libtards
Hope that helps
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The Politics Board is a circle jerk session for internet psudo intellectual cut and paste libtards
Hope that helps
And this place is full of intellectuals, right? ::)
Nothing to do with being a 'liberal'; just that the Coach has very little insight into politics and hasn't been able to debate worth a lick over on the politics forum.
And if you knew the true definitions of liberal and conservative, I think you'd see that most of the politics forum is full of conservatives/libertarians
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I am not concerned with these people's rights at all. In my opinion you don't end up there if you're innocently minding your own business.
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I am not concerned with these people's rights at all. In my opinion you don't end up there if you're innocently minding your own business.
Problem is that the US puts people in there without a proper trail
Hear of a Canadian attorney of Syrian origin who had 11 months of his life stolen from him? ::)
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Problem is that the US puts people in there without a proper trail
Hear of a Canadian attorney of Syrian origin who had 11 months of his life stolen from him? ::)
Would we get a fair trial from them?
Have we severed any reporter's heads off on television lately?
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Would we get a fair trial from them?
From Canadians?
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Problem is that the US puts people in there without a proper trail
Hear of a Canadian attorney of Syrian origin who had 11 months of his life stolen from him? ::)
Maybe they can just kill more of them on the field of battle, rather than taking them prisoner.
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Would we get a fair trial from them?
Have we severed any reporter's heads off on television lately?
You're a pretty big dolt, aren't you? What's your reasoning for justifying what that Canadian attorney got, and what militants do to hostages? Please explain.
no cruel and unusual punishment, right to trail are all constitutional rights
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Maybe they can just kill more of them on the field of battle, rather than taking them prisoner.
But the US was stupid and decided to invade Iraq.
I would have carpet bombed Saudia Aribia and taken all the oil, and I'd all also be killing the main sponsor of Islamic terrorism
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From Canadians?
Exactly. Plus Sweden, Britian & Australia...
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don't worry gitmo will be gone-zo once this guy takes over
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But the US was stupid and decided to invade Iraq.
I would have carpet bombed Saudia Aribia and taken all the oil, and I'd all also be killing the main sponsor of Islamic terrorism
Sounds easy when you put it that way...
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Problem is that the US puts people in there without a proper trail
Hear of a Canadian attorney of Syrian origin who had 11 months of his life stolen from him? ::)
Well..I guess if you want to make a Middle Eastern omelette, you gotta break a few eggs.
Personally, I'm totally against the war but I have little doubt they are there for fairly solid reasons...
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Well..I guess if you want to make a Middle Eastern omelette, you gotta break a few eggs.
Personally, I'm totally against the war but I have little doubt they are there for fairly solid reasons...
I would never justify collateral damage.
If the US hadn't invaded they'd(radical islamists)would be putting their efforts forward to destroy one another
9/11 was a bit of a freak thing.. I mean anyone who knows anything about these things for real knows that it was.. Now it's idiots united for a common cause thanks to Bush and cronies.
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Hey you two, stop it! >:(
This thread is about Joe, not your political mumbo-jumbo.
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I would never justify collateral damage.
If the US hadn't invaded they'd(radical islamists)would be putting their efforts forward to destroy one another
9/11 was a bit of a freak thing.. I mean anyone who knows anything about these things for real knows that it was.. Now it's idiots united for a common cause thanks to Bush and cronies.
Have you gone back on high dose ephedrine?
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WTF does this thread have to do with BigMac's?
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nobody wants that politics bulllchit in here
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Hhahahahha!!! ;D ;D
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You're a pretty big dolt, aren't you? What's your reasoning for justifying what that Canadian attorney got, and what militants do to hostages? Please explain.
no cruel and unusual punishment, right to trail are all constitutional rights
I am not a big dolt, pretty skinny-fat right now! :)
Those who are not residents of our country are not privy to the rights of our constitution. Especially when, through their crimes, they piss all over it.
Don't know about the Canadian atty....but its likely the exception, NOT the rule.
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Post in the Politics forums, fuckface
You get run outta there because you're unable to refute any of their points, so you come here where you know there's a higher level of retarded posters
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!