Guantanamo captives' phone calls

Guantanamo captives' phone calls

In the first six years it was open authorities occasionally allowed Guantanamo captives' phone calls to their family.In 2008 rules were set in place to start to allow all captives who met certain conditions to have one call home per year. [cite news
url=http://www.newser.com/story/21410/gitmo-prisoners-granted-phone-call-to-family.html
title=Gitmo Prisoners Granted Phone Call to Family
date=2008-03-13
accessdate=2008-08-08
quote='Unlawful enemy combatants' detained at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will be allowed to phone their families one a year, Reuters reports. But the military task force in charge of managing the prison has yet to work out the details. As it stands, Gitmo inmates can send and receive letters—subject to military censorship—but otherwise are permitted no contact with the outside world. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newser.com%2Fstory%2F21410%2Fgitmo-prisoners-granted-phone-call-to-family.html&date=2008-08-08 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/1218/story/452885.html
title=Captives to get phone link home
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=2008-03-12
accessdate=2008-08-08
quote=Past prison camps commanders have said that both logistics and security concerns would complicate telephone calls; they would require foreign language interpreters listening in to make sure detainees don't divulge sensitive information. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2F1218%2Fstory%2F452885.html&date=2008-08-08 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/11/national/main3927681.shtml?source=related_story
title=U.S. OKs Phone Calls For Gitmo Detainees
publisher=CBS News
date=2008-03-11
accessdate=2008-08-08
quote=A spokesman for the detention center, Army Lt. Col. Ed Bush, said it is working out procedures for the calls. He declined to provide details about which detainees would be eligible and how often calls would be permitted. 'I have no projected timeline for implementation but it is currently being developed,' he said. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2008%2F03%2F11%2Fnational%2Fmain3927681.shtml%3Fsource%3Drelated_story&date=2008-08-08 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N12190031.htm
title=U.S. says some Guantanamo prisoners can phone home
publisher=Reuters
author=Jane Sutton
date=2008-03-12
accessdate=2008-08-08
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alertnet.org%2Fthenews%2Fnewsdesk%2FN12190031.htm&date=2008-08-08 mirror] ]

When Salim Ahmed Hamdan was allowed a call home, on August 6 2008, after his Guantanamo Military Commission acquitted him of conspiracy and convicted him of material support for terrorism, his was the 107th call.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/835/story/630450.html
title=Gitmo jury deliberates; driver phones home
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=2008-08-06
accessdate=2008-08-08
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2F835%2Fstory%2F630450.html&date=2008-08-08 mirror] ]

Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi's call home

Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi, a Yemeni who faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission, told his Presiding Officer he had not been able to acquire a Yemeni lawyer because he had not been able to contact his family during his six years of detention.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/543147.html
title=Terror suspect phones Sudan to hire own lawyer
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=May 22 2008
accessdate=2008-05-25
quote=Within hours of a judge's order, an accused al Qaeda conspirator from Sudan got a call from home Thursday to consult with his family on how they might hire him a lawyer, at their own expense. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2Fnews%2Fbreaking_news%2Fstory%2F543147.html&date=2008-05-25 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/22/news/Guantanamo-Military-Tribunal.php
title=Guantanamo judge orders military to allow detainee phone call home to Sudan
publisher=International Herald Tribune
date=May 22, 2008
accessdate=2008-05-25
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/29/gitmo_phonecall/
title=Still silenced in Guantánamo
publisher=Salon magazine
author=Carol Chodroff
date=2008-05-29
accessdate=2008-08-08
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2Fnews%2Ffeature%2F2008%2F05%2F29%2Fgitmo_phonecall%2F&date=2008-08-08 mirror] ] On May 22 2008 his Presiding Officer ordered that arrangements should be made for him to have a one hour phone call home, by July 1 2008.
Pauline Storum, deputy commander for Public Affairs for Joint Task Force Guantanamo, told reporters later that same day that arrangements for the call had already been put in place, and that the call had taken place.cite news
url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_dade/story/545741.html
title=Guantánamo: Detainee didn't get call from home
publisher=Miami Herald
author=Carol Rosenberg
date=May 24 2008
accessdate=2008-05-25
quote=A military spokesman erred last week by telling journalists that an alleged al Qaeda conspirator at Guantánamo received a Red Cross-assisted telephone call from home. [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.miamiherald.com%2Fnews%2Fbreaking_dade%2Fstory%2F545741.html&date=2008-05-25 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnNASU52401.html
title=Guantanamo phone report was in error, U.S. says
author=Jane Sutton
publisher=Reuters
date=May 24 2008
accessdate=2008-05-25
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fafrica.reuters.com%2Fwire%2Fnews%2FusnNASU52401.html&date=2008-05-25 mirror] ]
Suzanne Lachelier, the officer who had been authorized to coordinate the call said she was surprised to read newspaper reports that the call had taken place, when she hadn't had time to begin making the arrangements.

Storun was later to send a retraction to reporters, but never explained how she came to make the mistake.

ee also

* Guantanamo captives' mail privileges

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