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Three Guantanamo Detainees Commit Suicide

HeadlineJun 12, 2006

The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced it is sending a team to investigate conditions at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay following the suicide of three detainees on Saturday. The military reported the men hanged themselves with nooses made of sheets and clothes. They are the first reported deaths at Guantanamo. There had been 41 previous suicide attempts as well as widespread hunger strikes. Two of the men were Saudis, one was from Yemen. They had been held at the prison for up to four years and never charged with a crime. One of the men — 21-year-old Yassar Talal al-Zahrani — was first detained when he was a juvenile. One of the other men who committed suicide was due to be released–but did not know it.

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