Amnesty USA head comments
The head of the Amnesty International USA said on Sunday the group doesn’t “know for sure” that the military is running a “gulag.”
Schulz noted that it was Amnesty’s headquarters in London that issued the annual report on global human rights, which said Guantanamo Bay “has become the gulag of our times.”
Asked about the comparison, Schulz said, “Clearly this is not an exact or a literal analogy.”
“… But there are some similarities. The United States is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons into which people are being literally disappeared … And in some cases, at least, we know that they are being mistreated, abused, tortured and even killed.”
“And whether the Americans like it or not, it does reflect how the more than 2 million Amnesty members in a hundred countries around the world and indeed the vast majority of those countries feel about the United States’ detention policy,” he added.
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