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Thread #65340 Message #1075218
Posted By: freda underhill
18-Dec-03 - 06:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Reporting - Why not get it right?
Subject: RE: BS: Reporting - Why not get it right?
among other things the article says:
A lawyer who has visited his client being held at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told the BBC prisoners there are not being treated equally.
He said there was a pecking order of treatment depending on the captive's nationality - with Americans on top. .... ... "I see a great destruction of what I would call the rule of law, that people should be treated equally before the law, that they should have the same standard of justice," he said. "This is a case where the standard of justice seems to have different layers, one for the Americans, there may be another one for the British, there is certainly a different one for Australian - less than the American - and the rest of them in the camp... they weren't [part of] the allies' camp is their rationale and they will get a lesser standard than what the Australians will."