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Families
of Kuwaiti Detainees File Complaint Against U.S.
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Months of
confinement in crude, chain-link cells in
Guantanamo
have left its 300 detainees suffering from emotional breakdowns,
and mental disorders
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KUWAIT
CITY, May 6 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The families of 11
Kuwaitis held by the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, have filed a complaint against the U.S. government for detaining
the men without officially charging them, a prisoner's father said
Sunday, May 5.
"We
have filed our complaint on the grounds that we want to know under
which law they are holding our children," Khaled Al-Ouda told
Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The
complaint was filed May 2 at the U.S. federal court for the District
of Columbia in Washington D.C.
"We
want to know exactly how many Kuwaitis are being held, why, what
they're accused of, and we demand they be given their rights,"
said Ouda, whose 24-year-old son, Fawzi, is being detained at the U.S.
naval base in Cuba.
"We
filed this complaint because we have tried very hard through political
channels to get an answer from the U.S. government," Ouda
stressed.
"We
have requested information ... and to meet them [detainees], but we
haven't received an answer," he added.
Ouda
said the families were certain seven Kuwaitis are among hundreds of
prisoners from the Afghan war detained in Guantanamo, while four were
being held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
But
they want to know if any Kuwaitis are among a batch of prisoners
transferred to the U.S. base earlier this week, he said.
In
the complaint, it was made clear that the 11 Kuwaitis were working in
Pakistan and Afghanistan as volunteers in hospitals, orphanages and
water treatment facilities when they were taken as prisoners in
January and February, 2002.
Their
families deny any accusations of their involvement with Al-Qaeda
network or the Taliban movement.
The
U.S. daily newspaper, the Washington Post, reported Saturday, May 4,
that the complaint said, “family members believe that none of the
Kuwaiti detainees is or ever has been a member or supporter of
Al-Qaeda or the Taliban, or of any terrorist organization.”
The
Post also reported that several detainees there were suffering from
acute emotional distress.
In
early February, “military doctors at the prison camp said they were
prescribing medication to two detainees for psychiatric illnesses. One
was a manic-depressive who had become psychotic, and the other was
suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome from being in battle,”
the Post said.
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