Close Guantánamo! - EP 3
I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace
English - October 30, 2023 14:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBGovernment irish politics militarism afet antiwar envi ireland socialism brussels inta politics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On this third episode we hear from two remarkable legal experts:
Alka Pradhan, Human Rights Counsel at the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions, explains the US’s use of Guantánamo as a legal black hole. She also emphasises the urgent crisis in medical care affecting the men still in Guantánamo, an aging detainee population quickly deteriorating after years of torture and harsh conditions.
Our second guest is Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. After a historic technical visit to Guantánamo, her report concludes that detainees have sustained “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law."