this will unfortunately make your day

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:37:56 -0700
> From: Shannon McElyea <Shannon () swisscreek com>
> Subject: FW: this will unfortunately make your day
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
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> Dave,
>
> Might be interesting for IP, if you could please remove our names, or at
> least E's... thanks.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Schmidt [mailto:eschmidt () google com]
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 11:38 AM
> To: Shannon@Swisscreek. Com
> Subject: this will unfortunately make your day
>
>
> >From the Australian Press
>
> The Courier Mail (Australia)
>
> http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6494000%2
> 55E401,00.html
>
> May 26, 2003
>
> THE US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a
> death camp, with its own death row and execution
> chamber.
>
> Prisoners would be tried, convicted and executed
> without leaving its boundaries, without a jury and
> without right of appeal, The Mail on Sunday newspaper
> reported yesterday. The plans were revealed by Major-
> General Geoffrey Miller, who is in charge of 680
> suspects from 43 countries, including two Australians.
>
> The suspects have been held at Camp Delta on Cuba
> without charge for 18 months.
>
> General Miller said building a death row was one plan.
> Another was to have a permanent jail, with possibly an
> execution chamber.
>
> The Mail on Sunday reported the move is seen as logical
> by the US, which has been attacked worldwide for
> breaching the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war
> since it established the camp at a naval base to hold
> alleged terrorists from Afghanistan.
>
> But it has horrified human rights groups and lawyers
> representing detainees.
>
> They see it as the clearest indication America has no
> intention of falling in line with internationally
> recognized justice.
>
> The US has already said detainees would be tried by
> tribunals, without juries or appeals to a higher court.
> Detainees will be allowed only US lawyers.
>
> British activist Stephen Jakobi, of Fair Trials Abroad,
> said: "The US is kicking and screaming against any
> pressure to conform with British or any other kind of
> international justice."
>
> American law professor Jonathan Turley, who has led US
> civil rights group protests against the military
> tribunals planned to hear cases at Guantanamo Bay,
> said: "It is not surprising the authorities are
> building a death row because they have said they plan
> to try capital cases before these tribunals.
>
> "This camp was created to execute people. The
> administration has no interest in long-term prison
> sentences for people it regards as hard-core
> terrorists."
>
> Britain admitted it had been kept in the dark about the
> plans.
>
> A Downing St spokesman said: "The US Government is well
> aware of the British Government's position on the death
> penalty."
>
> privacy            (c) Queensland Newspapers
> --


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