Doctors: Al-Jazeera Cameraman Close to Death at Gitmo
 
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:59:15 -0500 (CDT)

* Doctors: Al-Jazeera Cameraman Close to Death at Gitmo

* A Sudanese journalist jailed for more than five years at Guantanamo Bay is
reportedly close to taking his own life. Sami al-Haj is two-hundred fifty
days into a hunger strike protesting his imprisonment without charge or
trial. Doctors who've examined him say it appears he's given up his fight to
live. Al-Haj was working as a cameraman for the Arabic TV network Al Jazeera
when he was detained in a Pakistani town on the border with Afghanistan in
December 2001. He was transferred to US custody and flown to Bagram Air
Base. Six months later he was flown to Guantanamo Bay. He was been
imprisoned there without charge ever since.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/13/1444255

* Doctors, Activists Chide AMA on Gitmo Torture

* A group of medical professionals and anti-torture activists have compared
doctors involved in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay to those who covered up
the murder of South African anti-apartheid leader Steve Biko thirty years
ago. In a letter published in the medical journal Lancet, two hundred and
sixty signatories write: "The failure of the US regulatory authorities to
act is damaging the reputation of US military medicine. No health-care
worker in the War on Terror has been charged or convicted of any significant
offence despite numerous instances documented." The letter also says the
American Medical Association has failed to respond to their original
complaint sent eighteen months ago.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/11/1423249