In the trial surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the US, one of the five suspects has now been declared unfit to stand trial. The military judge in charge of the US prison camp at Guantanamo said Yemeni citizen Ramsi Binalshibh was not psychologically ready for a trial.
Binalshibh was a member of the so-called Hamburg terror cell, which included the three death pilots. A total of five men are due to answer in the current trial, including the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed. The men are accused of terrorism and murder in 2,976 cases. there is a risk of the death penalty. Binalshibh’s case will now be heard separately.
Binalshibh’s lawyer had repeatedly pointed out the enormous damage to his health due to repeated torture during interrogations by CIA officers. Several experts have actually diagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder. The 51-year-old also suffers from delusions. Based on these findings, the military judge in charge, Matthew McCall, now declared that the suspect could not participate in his defense.
Lawyer: ‘You can no longer deny damage after CIA torture’
Binalshibh has been in Guantanamo since 2006. Before that, he spent four years in various secret CIA prisons in Afghanistan, Morocco, Poland and Romania. There he was repeatedly subjected to a wide variety of CIA interrogation methods. Sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and other abuse were also on the daily agenda. According to his lawyer, he was made to stand chained and wear a diaper for three days. “He is a broken man,” David Bruck emphasized to the New York Times on Thursday. “It can no longer be denied that the CIA’s torture program has caused serious harm to the prisoners affected,” Bruck continued.
Source: Krone
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