Once again, the US government has dismissed charges from Guantanamo Bay detainees, but has refused to release them.
The five men are still being detained in Guantanamo Bay with the US military stating that they may file charges against them at a later date and will not release them at this stage.
What is interesting about this case is that only a month ago, a former prosecutor in the case against the five detainees, lieutenant colonel Darrel Vandeveld, resigned due to his own office refusing to release information that would have been helpful to the defense of the five detainees.
Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said:
The implosion of these five prosecutions painfully underscores how the Bush administration's torture and detention policies have failed to render justice in any sense of the word.
Once again, the US has displayed utter contempt for the most basic of human rights and have detained men without charge for no other reason than they hope that they may find some other evidence against the five detainees...maybe via torturing other detainees in order to save face.
Guantanamo Bay must be shut down and the rule of law must be upheld no matter if the person in question is charged with terrorism, or any other serious offense on the mainland.
- Beju -
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