‘Guantanamo Prisoners’

The 50 prisoners at Guantanamo who will never be tried or released

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

When successfully accomplished without the deadline set by President Obama to dismantle Guantanamo, a commission led by the Justice Department has formalized its recommendations on what to do with the 196 detainees who remain in jail makeshift court by the Bush Administration. For fifty of them, provided for indefinite detention without trial while continuing the so-called war on terror launched after 11-S.

This is the first time Washington has clarified the exact number of Guantanamo prisoners considered too dangerous to be released at the same time without the possibility of being judged. Limbo procedure justified by the need not to jeopardize the work of intelligence or because the available evidence have been obtained through coercion.

Along with the controversial option of indefinite detention-complicated by the refusal of the federal Congress to recreate a U.S. Guantanamo within-the committee headed by the Justice Department has also recommended that a total of 110 prisoners be released immediately or in the future. Delays attributed to the chaotic situation in Yemen, a country of origin of a good part of this whole prison population. The rest, 35, be prosecuted on charges of terrorism or war crimesEither in civilian courts or by special military courts