Repeated abuses allegedly suffered by three British prisoners at the
hands of US interrogators and guards in the Guantánamo Bay detention
camp in Cuba could amount to war crimes, the Red Cross said yesterday.
The organisation, which maintains a rigidly neutral stance in public,
took the unusual step of voicing its concerns in uncompromising
language after the former detainees, known as the Tipton Three,
revealed that they had been beaten, shackled, photographed naked and in
one incident questioned at gunpoint while in US custody. Their vivid
account of the harrowing conditions at the camp, as told to their
lawyers and published for the first time in yesterday's Guardian, has
reignited the debate about the treatment of prisoners and the British
government's role in their questioning and detention. Last night the
Red Cross was joined by the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims
of Torture, which argued that if the allegations were true they
indicated systematic abuse, amounting to torture. [more]
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