[Peace-discuss] FW: Trump May Expand Gitmo Capacity to Bush-Era Levels on Dubious Legal Grounds - Sputnik International

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Subject: Trump May Expand Gitmo Capacity to Bush-Era Levels on Dubious Legal Grounds - Sputnik International

University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle told Sputnik that the terminology used by Trump during his State of the Union address was chosen deliberately, leaving suspects vulnerable to being indefinitely detained without due process.

"By determining that they are 'unlawful combatants' - a completely bogus category under international humanitarian law - Trump has tried to strip them of all of their international legal rights and render them non-persons," he said.

Trump, Boyle added, was also likely to permit the renewed use of torture, or so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques at Guantanamo in the coming years.

Captured terror suspects "will be shipped to Gitmo where they will be subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and subjected to the Pentagon's Kangaroo Courts that even the US Supreme Court has ruled violate the Geneva Conventions, which is a war crime," Boyle said.

"Trump wants to terrorize and intimidate all armed and unarmed opposition to further US imperial aggression and Occupations all over the world," Boyle said.
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201802081061457158-trump-expand-gitmo-capacity/