Omar is a Guantanamo detainee (prisoner). He is being held there by the United States of America without trial, and he is accused of terrorism, but doesn’t even know why. To learn more about Omar watch the following movie.
Save Omar - Justice for Omar Deghayes
Omar is not the only person being held this way, without rights, without a trial, without access to any information, or even access to evidence to prove why they are being held. There are many more just like him at Guantanamo. For reference read an excerpt of an article from the Guardian, a United Kingdom (UK) Paper.
Lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has 36 clients in Guantanamo and has visited many times. In this powerful extract from a new book he argues that secrecy in the camp is a disease.
Former “detainee” Binyam Mohamed [British resident arrested in Pakistan] viewed the whole military commission process as a con, a lie that was meant to deceive the world. In June 2006 the supreme court said the same, in more temperate terms, and struck down the commissions as illegal. It rejected Donald Rumsfeld’s assurance that the trials would be fair, accusing the administration of “jettisoning” legal rights.
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Hundreds of terrorist suspects have been kept without trial and investigation on the American naval base in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. More than 750 prisoners served their terms there over the past period. And there are about 400 prisoners there today. Newsmen have repeatedly reported about humiliations the inmates of the Guantanamo Bay prison are subjected to, about the ill treatment of prisoners, about the use of tortures and about religious abuse that have become the norm there. No accusations have been brought against them.
And this is an object of concern for the world community. Despite the existing decision on the establishment of special tribunals for the inmates of the Guantanamo Bay prison, the situation has undergone no changes at all.
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