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United States UNITED STATES 350 Fifth Ave 34 th Floor New York, N.Y. 10118-3299 http://www.hrw.org (212) 290-4700 Vol. 14, No. 4 (G) – August 2002 We were treated like criminals. We felt discriminated against and treated different from other detainees. Our requests were ignored; we were held in isolation and had no access to our lawyer for two weeks. Other prisoners did not face these conditions. We felt the treatment was degrading. Testimony to Human Rights Watch Six of nine Egyptian nationals arrested in Evansville, Indiana on October 11, 2001 in the wake of the September 11 investigation. Eight of the men were held as material witnesses, the other was held on immigration charges. The men alleged that they were interrogated by the FBI before being allowed to make a phone call, after which they could not talk to their attorneys for four days. None were charged in connection with the September 11 attacks. (c) 2001 Denny Simmons/Evansville Courier and Press PRESUMPTION OF GUILT: Human Rights Abuses of Post-September 11 Detainees 1630 Connecticut Ave, N.W., Suite 500 2nd Floor, 2-12 Pentonville Road 15 Rue Van Campenhout Washington, DC 20009 London N1 9HF, UK 1000 Brussels, Belgium TEL (202) 612-4321 TEL: (44 20) 7713 1995 TEL (32 2) 732-2009 FAX (202) 612-4333 FAX: (44 20) 7713 1800 FAX (32 2) 732-0471 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] UNITED STATES PRESUMPTION OF GUILT: Human Rights Abuses of Post-September 11 Detainees I. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS..................................................................................................3 Recommendations ....................................................................................................................................6 Arrests...................................................................................................................................................6 Secrecy .................................................................................................................................................7 Access to Counsel and Protection of Legal Rights...............................................................................7 Consular Rights.....................................................................................................................................8 Arbitrary Detention ................................................................................................................................8 Conditions of Detention.........................................................................................................................8 II. ARRESTS ................................................................................................................................................9 Who are the Detainees? .........................................................................................................................10 III. SECRECY..............................................................................................................................................16 Refusal to Release Information about Detainees ...................................................................................18 Denial of Access to Detention.................................................................................................................23 Facilities ..................................................................................................................................................23 Immigration Proceedings Conducted in Secrecy....................................................................................24 Inadequate Justification for Secrecy .......................................................................................................28 Protection of the Terrorism..................................................................................................................28 Investigation ........................................................................................................................................28 Privacy Concerns ................................................................................................................................30 IV. DENIAL OF ACCESS TO COUNSEL ...................................................................................................33 Custodial Interrogations without..............................................................................................................34 Access to Counsel ..................................................................................................................................34 Abusive Interrogations ............................................................................................................................37 Access to Counsel for INS Detainees.....................................................................................................41 V. VIOLATION OF CONSULAR RIGHTS..................................................................................................45 VI. ARBITRARY DETENTION ....................................................................................................................46 Detaining Non-Citizens without Charge ..................................................................................................48 Widespread Delays in Filing Charges.....................................................................................................49 Delay in Access to Courts.......................................................................................................................52 Detainees Denied Release on Bond or Held on Extraordinarily High Bond ...........................................53 Continued Detention Despite ..................................................................................................................55 Release Order.........................................................................................................................................55 Refusal to Release Detainees for whom Bonds have been Posted .......................................................57 Continued Detention Despite ..................................................................................................................57 Removal Order........................................................................................................................................57 Misuse of Material Witness Warrants .....................................................................................................60 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH AUGUST 2002, VOL. XX, NO. X (X) UNITED STATES: PRESUMPTION OF GUILT VII. CONDITIONS OF DETENTION ...........................................................................................................67 Administrative Segregation .....................................................................................................................69 Physical and Verbal Abuse .....................................................................................................................73 Inadequate Health Care..........................................................................................................................78 Inability to Satisfy Religious ....................................................................................................................82 Obligations ..............................................................................................................................................82 Commingling INS Detainees with Criminal Inmates ...............................................................................84 Other Problems at Detention...................................................................................................................84 Facilities ..................................................................................................................................................84 Barriers to Communication with Families............................................................................................84 Jail Handbooks....................................................................................................................................85 Recreation...........................................................................................................................................86 Language Barriers...............................................................................................................................87 APPENDIX A...............................................................................................................................................88 APPENDIX B...............................................................................................................................................89 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS..............................................................................................................................95 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 2 AUGUST 2002, VOL. 14, NO. 4 (G) UNITED STATES: PRESUMPTION OF GUILT I. SUMMARY AND in this report. Their lives were turned upside RECOMMENDATIONS down when their nationality and religion drew the government’s attention although they were never charged with terrorism For me America was the dreamland. I used to think that I was lucky to live in a liberal and de- Drawing on scores of interviews with cur- mocratic country. But the dreamland became rent and former detainees and their attorneys, hell
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