Martin Scheinin, a Finnish law professor, has reported on his observations of the trial of Salid Ahmed Hamdan, who is incarcerated at the U.S prison at Guantanamo Bay. Scheinin told the U.N. Human Rights Council today that it would be impossible for anyone to mount an adequate defense at the prison, given that no one can bring witnesses from abroad. Moreover, the defense cannot even call other detainees at the prison camp as witnesses.
Scheinin also said the U.S. would need to allow him to conduct unmonitored interviews with prisoners at U.S. camps before he could provide a complete assessment of conditions at those prisons.
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