Tortured terror suspects have mental illnesses, say doctors

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The Independent
By Robert Verkaik Legal Affairs Correspondent
14 October 2004


Eight foreign terror suspects held without trial for nearly three years in British prisons have experienced mental torture and are now suffering from serious psychiatric illnesses, a team of doctors revealed yesterday.

Their findings showed that all of the men have self-harmed and considered suicide and one has attempted to take his own life by hanging himself.

The men and three of their wives have been interviewed by a team of 11 eminent consultant psychiatrists and one leading consultant psychologist. Their report concludes that all eight are suffering from "major depressive anxiety disorder and some are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder". The report concludes: "There is evidence from repeated clinical interviews carried out by expert clinicians that indefinite detention is having a damaging impact on detainees' mental health."

The men were all arrested shortly after the terrorist attacks on America on 11 September 2001 under emergency legislation rushed through Parliament. Six of the detainees come from Algeria, one from Tunisia and one from Gaza.

More:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=571945

As the UK found out only too horribly during the cold war years, internment without trial is sick

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1. And how many men have been detained at Guantanamo?

Without charge, without representation, without recourse? This is flat-out torture being perpetrated by the corrupt Bush administration for no other reason than "because we can."

Shameful. Sickening. Inhuman. All the finest qualities of George W. Bush. Or as John of Patmos called him, "antichrist."

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2. But -- but -- but ------

I thought post-traumatic stress disorder was first described as what THE BAD GUYS did to OUR GUYS in Vietnam! I mean, indefinite detention without information, isn't that what the VC did to people like John McCain?

Surely you don't mean to tell me that WE (and our coalition partners) are doing anything even remotely like what the VC did to St John of McCain??? For shame!


/wiping off disgusting sarcasm like spit from the lip of boosh/