which organisation reported about human rights violation in Guantanamo bay? mention any two charge of human rights violation made by this organisation against the U.S.A
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Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp opened in 2002 to house suspected terrorist persons associated with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Hundreds of suspects were detained from Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States military without a charge or any means of defending themselves (Nolen 2016), a severe defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Guantanamo Bay detention camp opened on the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba under the presidency of George W. Bush. In the context of detainees being denied basic human rights, the Bush administration “maintained that it was neither obliged to grant basic constitutional protections to the prisoners, since the base was outside U.S. territory, nor required to observe the Geneva Conventions regarding the treatment of prisoners of war and civilians during wartime, as the conventions did not apply to ‘unlawful enemy combatants’” (Nolen 2016).
Many allegations regarding misconduct at Guantanamo Bay have been published since it’s opening in 2002. Ali Abdullah Ahmed, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, had aggressive tendencies while he was housed at Guantanamo Bay, and he frequently refused to listen to instructions given to him. In 2006, Ahmed and two other prisoners hanged themselves in their cells. “Their deaths in June 2006- the first at Guantanamo- fueled a debate between military officials, who deemed the suicides ‘an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us’ by jihadists seeking martyrdom, and prison critics, who interpreted them as an act of despair by men with little hope of a fair trial or release” (Savage 2011). Subsequent suicides have been committed by other prisoners of Guantanamo Bay since 2006, and it is a constant talk among prisoners at the detainment camp (Savage 2011). In a letter to a family member, Ahmed’s brother, also a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, stated that committing suicide is a continuation of the jihad toward the United States (Savage 2011).
In defiance of their unlawful detainment and treatment, prisoners have rallied against U.S. army officials at Guantanamo Bay. One of the most widely used tactics to advocate for themselves is a hunger strike. In an article written by Emmeline Buckley et al. (2014) in the Tropical Medicine and International Health Journal, the team describes the ethics that have been abandoned by medical officials at Guantanamo Bay. They write about the force-feedings of prisoners who go on hunger strikes and medical abuse used to gain information from detainees: “These malpractices include medical personnel involvement in abusive interrogation designed to increase disorientation and anxiety of detainees, using medical information for interrogation purposes, and the force-feeding of hunger strikers” (Buckley, Emmeline et al. 2014). The United States government responded to this statement and others by saying that it is necessary for them to follow the laws of war, not the laws of medical ethics. The laws of war do not state that prisoners cannot be tortured through medical methods to obtain information from them. Medical professionals attempted to argue this until 2013 when Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp stated that they would no longer be reporting the hunger strikes of prisoners. In 2014, the United States Pentagon issued a report stating that the original “Medical Management of Detainees on Hunger Strike” document was replaced by “Medical Management of Detainees with Weight Loss.” In the new document, the force-feeding of prisoners is called “involuntary enteral feeding” (Buckley, Emmeline et al. 2014). The medical community continues to fight for medical ethics at Guantanamo Bay, but abuse continues in various forms at the detention center. “The events at Guantanamo Bay require urgent attention, both for the benefit of the detainees whose human rights are being ignored and for the sake of the wider global medical community, whose reputation for independence and ethical rigor is being compromised” (Buckley, Emmeline et al. 2014).