Action mail : 3 suicides survenus à Guantánamo en 2006

Posté par : Benoit Priem le 12 avril 2010

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Dear Attorney General,

Guantánamo deaths in custody in June 2006

I am writing to express my concern about the deaths of three Guantánamo detainees which occurred in June 2006.

Recently published information about the deaths of Salah Ahmed al-Salami, Mani Shaman al-Utaybi and Yasser Talal al-Zahrani raise questions about how these  occurred and the findings of the official investigations into them.

It seems to me that official investigations to date have been characterized by a lack of transparency and in fact have raised more questions than they have answered.

I understand that in 2009 the Justice Department initiated an investigation into allegations made by Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman who was on guard duty at Guantánamo on the night of the deaths but that the scope, methodology and findings of this investigation have never been made public. I call on the Justice Department to publish the results of this investigation and for the US administration to publish fully unredacted copies of the report of all other investigations into these deaths and the supporting documentation that accompanies them.

The families of these men and diplomatic representatives of their countries deserve to have full information about these investigations and any follow-up action which may be required. I note that District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by the families of two of the deceased men on jurisdictional grounds. I call on the US authorities to ensure that the families of these men are kept fully informed of developments and are given access to effective remedy, including compensation, for any human rights violations to which their relatives were subjected during their years in US custody, including arbitrary detention, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

These deaths also raise questions about two further issues to which they could be related. The first issue concerns, the past and present existence of a facility at Guantánamo allegedly known as “Camp No”. What was or is the purpose of this facility? I call on you to make its existence and purpose public. Secondly, the lawyer of another detainee, Shaker Aamer, who is still held in Guantánamo, has filed an account in federal court that on the same day as the above named three detainees died, his client was subjected to alleged torture and other ill-treatment. These events could be connected and so I call on you to publish the findings of any investigation into his treatment.

I am sure that you will agree with me that anyone found to be responsible for human rights violations should be brought to justice.

It is therefore essential that a full and transparent response should be given by the US authorities to allegations such as those which I have outlined above. This has not occurred thus far and I call upon you Attorney General to make sure that this happens.

I am copying this letter to Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary of State in the Human Rights and Labor, Department of State and Lanny A. Breuer, Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice so that they are aware of my concerns.

Yours sincerely,

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