• Ex-Prisoners Allege Rights Abuses by U.S. Military

    From Otis Willie@warlibrary@pacbell.net to alt.society.civil-liberty on Wednesday, August 20, 2003 03:19:35
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    Ex-Prisoners Allege Rights Abuses by U.S. Military

    (EXCERPT) By Tania Branigan Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday,
    August 19, 2003; Page A02

    Prisoners released from the military camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
    and Bagram air base in Afghanistan have said in a series of interviews
    with Amnesty International that they were subjected to human rights
    abuses.

    The accounts, which provide some of the most detailed information so
    far on alleged violations, include claims that people were forcibly
    injected, denied sleep and forced to stand or kn...

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