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.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=571945As the UK found out only too horribly during the cold war years, internment without trial is sick