Author: Carol Rosenberg
Published on: 03/01/2025 | 00:00:00
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Guantánamo Convict Sues to Stop U.S. Plan to Send Him to Prison in Iraq A court filing said the prisoner was at risk for abuse and might not be able to get adequate health care if transferred. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to war crimes charges, accepting responsibility for the actions of some of the forces under his command, in a deal to have his sentence expire in 2032. Mr. Hadi is the oldest and most disabled prisoner at the offshore detention The Secretive Facility Housing Migrants: Reports and interviews shed new light on the holding center. Some say they’ve been forced to wear blackout goggles. The lawsuit seeks to thwart a deal that is part of an effort by the Biden administration to reduce the detainee population at the prison. Spokesmen at the State and Justice Departments declined to discuss the case. Mr. Hadi was represented on the petition by Benjamin C. McMurray and Scott K. Wilson, federal public defenders in Utah. It was also signed by Susan Hensler, a lawyer who is employed by the Defense Department. “The State Department’s own human rights reports, which are consistent with that determination, find that Iraqi prisons are rife with serious human rights abuses, torture included,” he says. Carol Rosenberg reports on the wartime prison and court at Guantánamo Bay.
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