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5 December 2006 |
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|  | Center for American Progress Action Fund
After 4 years of U.S. detention, Padilla may be too unfit for conviction
Including pictures
Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen, has been detained for four years without formal charges, much of it in solitary confinement, and is now showing signs of psychological trauma, his lawyers say. The original accusations against him -- "about the dirty bomb, Al Qaeda connections and supposed plans to set off natural gas explosions in apartment buildings -- appear nowhere in the indictment against him." They were "fabrications or delusions or fantasies," Time magazine's Andrew Sullivan writes. Now, after several years of solitary detention and reported aggressive interrogation tactics, Padilla has "turned into a mental patient," potentially making conviction against him on any grounds impossible. During questioning, his lawyers say, "he often exhibits facial tics, unusual eye movements and contortions of his body." Sullivan writes, "Padilla, by all accounts, was a completely non-violent and docile prisoner every day of his incarceration. And yet they put him in body-manacles for four years, complete isolation and darkness, and even fitted him with night-goggles for a dental operation." (Pictures of Padilla's detention were made public on Friday.)
Last year, Time magazine reported on similar circumstances experienced by another Bush administration detainee, Mohammed al-Qahtani: "At the end of months of sleep deprivation and other forms of torture, Qahtani, according to an FBI letter, 'was evidencing behavior consistent with extreme psychological trauma (talking to non existent people, reporting hearing voices, crouching in a cell covered with a sheet for hours on end).'"
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