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13:50, July 06, 2007 |
The U.S. military said on Thursday that it is improving conditions at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility for terror suspects, adding such things as a weekly movie night for "model inmates."
A year after a security overhaul, the military hopes to provide "increased mental stimulation" with expanded recreation for the 375 men still detained there, Navy Rear Adm. Mark Buzby was quoted by U.S. media as saying.
"There are certainly benefits to giving them outlets other than sitting in their cell or sitting in their recreation cell for hours at a time with nothing else to exercise their mind or think about other than their situation," Buzby said.
In Camp 4, which is reserved for "the most compliant" prisoners, roughly 45 have already been allowed to tend a vegetable garden and watch officer-selected television shows.
Defense attorneys derided the new measures, saying they are unlikely to quell the sense of hopelessness that plagues many of the men, some of whom have been detained without charges for as long as five years.
The United States opened the detention facility at its naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in January 2002, to hold terror suspects and Taliban members mainly captured during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.
The international community and human rights groups have been constantly calling for its closure.
Source: Xinhua
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