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Red Cross: Guantanamo Abuse Could Be War Crime

HeadlineAug 05, 2004

The Red Cross said yesterday that the U.S. may have committed war crimes at Guantanamo Bay if reports of detainees being tortured at the military base are true. This according to a report in the Guardian of London. The comment by the Red Cross comes a day after three former detainees from Britain revealed they were the victims of systemic abuse at the hands of their US captors both in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay. The men said they were beaten, shackled, photographed naked and in one incident questioned at gunpoint while in US custody. In addition a leader in Britain’s Liberal Democrats’ party called on the Foreign Office to launch an investigation into the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

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