Comments on: Four Men Leave Guantánamo; Two Face Ill-Defined Trials In Italy

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By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:50:40 +0000

Thanks, TD, and thanks, Jim. I do hope to look into the Italian story in more depth, but as you note, Jim, I might be rather too busy to give it the attention it deserves. Now where’s that extra pair of arms that I ordered from Amazon?

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:44:03 +0000

Regardless of how any potential trials in Italy are conducted, the treatment the men will receive in Italian prisons may not be much better than what they’ve experienced in Guantanamo — see http://www.helptheprisoners.org/ for details of how Muslim prisoners are treated in at least three prisons in Italy. European nations’ handling of prisoners since the beginning of the “war on terror” could form a worthwhile offshoot of Guantanamo research — as if Andy weren’t busy enough with stories from the US and UK.

By: the talking dog

the talking dog — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:39:22 +0000

Unlike the United States, Italy is ultimately subject to the European Court of Human RIghts in Strasbourg; if Italy treats these men fairly and in accordance with applicable human rights laws, so be it; if it does not… Strasbourg will ultimately decide this (albeit some years from now).

That the men may not get “fair” trials in Italy is troubling, but is in no sense assured– Italy has a relatively transparent justice system, and by and large its prosecutors enjoy some measure of independence from political pressures compared to other places.

Still, the inability of the United States to even charge them with wrongdoing while issuing the rhetoric of “worst of the worst” is most troubling of all, and the Kafkaesque nightmare that is America’s legal black hole will at least end for these men, even if something else troubling has arisen in its stead. The Obama Administration’s record of trickling out perhaps 1 or 1 1/2% of the prisoners left per month means that GTMO will not be closed by 22 January 2010… or for that matter by 22 January 2017.

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