This week Moroccan Human rights organizations repeated their call for the shutting down of the infamous Guantanamo detention centre, "cemetery of the living" and "scandal against humanity."
The call was made at a conference on "Guantanamo and Globalization of Human Rights Violations", on the occasion of world campaign to shut down this shameful detention centre.
Secretary General of Moroccan Observatory of Prisons, Abderrahim Jamai, said what is going on in this detention centre will have repercussions on all over the world, underlining that, legally speaking, the people there are "not detainees but abducted ones"in prisons beyond any control.
He said the testimonies of former "abducted people" reveal the absence of the most basic rights of prisoners as worldwide recognized (right to know detention reasons, trial date and conditions and right to defence).
Echoing Jamai, president of association “Adala” (Justice), Abdelaziz Nouidi, underlined that meetings with former Gitmo detainees revealed the dangerous abuses of international law, notably arbitrary detention and torture incriminated by international conventions.
These testimonies, he said, revealed that detainees suffered from human rights’ abuses, as they were electrocuted, with their eyes folded and their hands tied and deprived of food.
President of Amnesty/Morocco, Mohamed Sektaoui underlined that Guantanamo symbolizes the violations perpetrated during the “war on terror” campaign, calling for releasing all the innocent detainees and conducting fair trials conform to international standards.
According to the Pentagon report, issued on May 16, 2006, there were 759 detainees in Guantanamo prison, including 18 Moroccans, accused of belonging to Al-Qaeda and Talibans.
The US administration has released nine Moroccan detainees (five in August 2004, three in February 2006 and one in October 2006), while it transferred five others, holding double nationality, to their residence countries in Belgium, Great Britain, France and Spain.
See all our earlier stories on Guantanamo.
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