Friday, January 12, 2007

Trapped at Guantanamo

"...they wait. When we last saw Saber in November, he was in his sixth month of solitary confinement. Since August, he has seen us, his legal team, twice and a psychiatrist on three brief occasions. For a few minutes each day, he sees the camp guards who bring his meals. He has had no other human contact. The glaring lights in his cell are on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When we left the cell, we could hear Saber shouting -- brief, truncated cries. We could not understand what he was saying.

Five years of freedom can never be reclaimed. Congress should right the Guantanamo wrong now.

Melissa Hoffer is an attorney practicing in Boston.

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