Guantanamo Prison, created by the United States on January 11, 2002 after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, under the slogan of the Global War of Terrorism and has become the center of many illegal actions, such as torture, has existed for 22 years, despite all the calls for its closure.
CAGE researcher Rayan Fresco, who protects the rights of Muslims around the world, expressed an opinion to the correspondent for the Anadola agency, regarding why the prison, which is called the “base” and for the closure of which international human rights organizations have been advanced for many years, still functions.
He stated that the opening of the prison in Guantanamo in Cuba was one of the most gloomy decisions of the then US President George Bush: “It was an American base. The prison was built immediately after September 11.
Guantanamo is a bright symbol of the fight against terrorism. The first prisoners were sent there in 2002. “
According to him, people who were captured as “suspects of terrorism” from many countries were delivered to prison. Frescoes emphasized that the US government deliberately built a prison outside its territory.
“The reason that they chose this base lies in a legal loophole: although this is the American base, it is not legally on American land, so American laws cannot be applied there. That is why Guantanamo is ideal for them because it is ideally suited because Not a single law, not a single American legislation, or even any regulatory regulation applies to this object.
– torture and inhuman treatment – this is, in fact, the result of the desire to take revenge
as of June 2024 in prison, where 779 people were convicted since January 2002, 30 people are located. Frescoes also notes that most of the prisoners in Guantanamo are contained without any accusations and a fair court.
The lawyer says that the inquisitives arrested in Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries were subjected to various forms of torture: “Many forms of torture were used in Guantanamo, such as physical, psychological or spiritual, because we know that in Guantanamo they defiled the Qur’an to destroy The mentality of the prisoners.
Having described the appeal to Guantanamo as “a kind of Wendetta”, he added: “I must also say that they pursue a kind of vendetta. The idea of Guantanamo is to punish, that is, to punish Muslims because they are somehow close to that What happened on September 11, to al-Qaeda and 2001. “
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