Mais um testemunho de tortura e prisões secretas

• «A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or "black sites", around the world and accused the US of torture. (...) He said he was initially arrested in Iraq in January 2004, when the US military raided a suspected arms market in Falluja. (...) He said he was then transferred to Abu Ghraib, where he alleged he was subjected to a regime of beatings, sleep deprivation, suspension upside-down in painful positions, intimidation by dogs and induced hypothermia. (...) Mr Maqtari said that in late April 2004 he and a number of other detainees were transferred to another CIA black site, possibly in eastern Europe and held there in isolation for a further 28 months.» (BBC)

Este testemunho corrobora o retrato que agora é cada vez mais claro: tortura em Abu Ghraib, estada longa nos calabouços do leste da Europa (Polónia ou Roménia) e negação sistemática de acesso a advogados ou outro tipo de apoio (Cruz Vermelha, etc). Se presumo que Clinton ou Obama terminariam com estes abusos, não excluo que até McCain lhes ponha fim (ingenuidade?). Mas é indispensável que os responsáveis sejam punidos, nos EUA e na Europa de Leste.