Amnesty USA backs off Gitmo as 'gulag': "On 'Fox News Sunday,' host Chris Wallace asked William Schulz, director of Amnesty International USA, if he stood by the description of the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison.
Schulz responded by saying, 'Clearly, this is not an exact or a literal analogy, and the secretary general has acknowledged that.'
'In size and in duration, there are not similarities between U.S. detention facilities and the gulag,' Schulz said. 'People are not being starved in those facilities. They're not being subjected to forced labor.'
Schulz maintained that some similarities did exist, saying the United States keeps a network of prisons worldwide, 'many of them secret prisons into which people are being literally disappeared.' In some cases, he said, prisoners are being tortured and killed."
Schulz responded by saying, 'Clearly, this is not an exact or a literal analogy, and the secretary general has acknowledged that.'
'In size and in duration, there are not similarities between U.S. detention facilities and the gulag,' Schulz said. 'People are not being starved in those facilities. They're not being subjected to forced labor.'
Schulz maintained that some similarities did exist, saying the United States keeps a network of prisons worldwide, 'many of them secret prisons into which people are being literally disappeared.' In some cases, he said, prisoners are being tortured and killed."
