Inmate No. 760 in Guantanamo Prison is a Mauritanian named Slahi. Because he once received a call from Bin Laden's satellite phone, he was taken away by the police for investigation. Three years later, he was transferred to Guantanamo.
The purpose of the United States in establishing Guantanamo prison in Cuba is that it is an extra-legal place in the United States, and the administrator can be free from the jurisdiction of the United States law and can brutally enforce the law at will.
Nancy Holland is a humanitarian reformer and an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. As the defendant's defense lawyer, she puts the defense of the legal system and the pursuit of justice in the first place, and insists on whether the client has been tried in a fair manner. She believes that this is not only defending the client, but also fighting for the legal rights of all citizens.
According to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, Nancy applied to the court for a "habeas corpus" for Slashi.
The prosecution said that sufficient time was needed to clean up the confidential evidence. However, the defense argued that the client has been forcibly detained for eight years, and the government should have had enough time to file charges. Therefore, the judge required the prosecution to submit evidence that the prisoner was guilty within ten days, otherwise the enforcement would be initiated.
But when Nancy’s assistant Terry read Slashi’s confession, she simply believed that she could not emotionally allow herself to defend a terrorist.
Nancy asked Slashi to provide his own "confession" and prove that he had been unfairly interrogated, otherwise he would not be able to apply for a "habeas corpus".
In his letter to Nancy, Slaxi detailed his experience of being tortured to extract a confession: During his first three years in Guantanamo, he was interrogated for 18 hours a day. Not only was he hung up in the cell, but it was frozen like an ice cave, and high-decibel noises were still playing from the loudspeaker, just to prevent him from sleeping. Various types of waterboarding will be performed on him. He threatened to arrest his mother and let other prisoners rape her. After Slashi was tortured in this way for 70 days, his will was finally destroyed.
The prosecution chose Stewart Koch as the chief attorney representing the government to lead the prosecution of Slashi, because the co-pilot of Flight 175 that crashed into the South Tower on 911 was once a colleague of his Naval Flight School. The government believes that emotions and positions will be more important. But Stu is a principled man, and he insists on viewing the original recorded files. Because his assistant found that there were many contradictions in the report provided by the joint task force, and deleted all the details of interrogation personnel, dates, and so on. He decided to go to the prison to see if there was any abuse of prisoners. He found that the air conditioner in the cell was deliberately adjusted to the lowest 11 degrees Celsius, the speakers were playing unbearable heavy metal music, and rings were installed on the floor, ceiling, and walls. In the end, he discovered from the file box No. 32 that the confessions had been made under duress and could not be used as evidence. So he refused to prosecute this case. As a Christian, a person who has sworn to defend the Constitution, he would rather be criticized as a traitor than to violate his conscience. He resolutely chose to resign.
"Will you do your best to seek justice on earth? And treat everyone with the inherent dignity of mankind?"
A passage from Slashi during the trial was thought-provoking.
"In my hometown, we know not to trust the police. We know that the law is corrupt. We know that the government uses fear to control us. When I moved to Germany when I was a teenager, this was the first time I experienced living in A place where people are not afraid of the police. They believe that the law will protect them. For me and many people in the world, the United States is the same. When I first came to Guantanamo, I was very happy because I believed in American justice. . I never believed that I would be locked up for eight years without trial. I didn’t believe that the United States would use fear to control me. All the time I was here, I was told that “you are guilty”. Not because of what I did. , Or something that has been proven, but because of suspicion and association. If you have opinions about the United States, you will always have this problem. The person who kidnapped me will not forgive me for what I have never done. But I try to go Forgive them, because God wants me not to hold a grudge against those who abuse me. For eight years, I have been dreaming of entering the courtroom. Because I believe that the courtroom is guided by the law, not by fear. So no matter what you decide, Your Honor, I can accept it. May God forgive us, and may God be with us."
Although Slashi won the habeas corpus application, he was detained for another seven years after the Obama administration appealed.
He never saw his mother again.
His "Diary of Guantanamo" was later published in multiple languages.
Among the 779 prisoners in Guantanamo, 8 pleaded guilty, and the results of 3 of them were overturned after appeal.
The CIA, the Department of Defense, and any government agency in the United States did not admit that they were responsible for this, nor did they apologize for the abuse that occurred in Guantanamo.
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