white anglo-saxon male;

* "Videos recorded inside a New York jail show Arab and Asian detainees, who were picked up in a sweep of immigrants in the wake of the September 11 attacks, being slammed and bounced off the prison walls by guards, according to an official US government report."

[...]

"The investigators reported that the detainees in each case appeared to have done nothing to warrant rough treatment; they had in fact been entirely compliant with their captors. The report found evidence on the tapes - discovered in a prison storeroom in August this year - to support detainees' allegations that they were routinely abused verbally.

The tapes also confirmed allegations that the guards twisted detainees' arms while they were cuffed behind their backs, and that they sometimes over-tightened leg and arm restraints and stepped on chains connected to shackles in a way that increased the pain inflicted by them."


* "Six months on from the 11 September attacks, a significant number of people detained in the USA in their aftermath continue to be deprived of some basic rights under international law, and many appear to have been detained arbitrarily, Amnesty International said today.

The organization released today a report detailing its concerns on the post-11 September detentions in the USA, based on research including numerous interviews with attorneys, detainees, relatives, and visits to two jails."

"I have now been in solitary confinement for 3 and a half months and by the time of the next hearing I will have been here for four months. [...] Why am I imprisoned? Why in solitary confinement? And why under maximum security measures? I have many questions and no answers. What are they accusing me of? Nobody knows."

(Letter from a detainee held at the Metropolitan Detention Centre, Brooklyn, New York, for an immigration violation)