A new article came out about the treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. Check out this story Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden. He is supposed to be working on his defense for his trial next month:
...But his lawyers say he cannot. They say Hamdan, already the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, has essentially been driven insane by solitary confinement in a tiny cell where he spends at least 22 hours a day, goes to the bathroom and eats all his meals. His defense team says he is suicidal, hears voices, has flashbacks, talks to himself and says the restrictions of Guantánamo "boil his mind..."
...Conditions are more isolating than many death rows and maximum-security prisons in the United States, said Jules Lobel, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who is an expert on U.S. prison conditions...
Read the rest of the International Herald Tribune article
here.
