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(回答先: オーストラリア人にも虐待？＝米が調査確約（時事通信） 投稿者 シジミ 日時 2004 年 5 月 21 日 20:49:08)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120122341.html
Australia takes US word on alleged abuse
By Marian Wilkinson and Tom Allard
May 22, 2004
The Australian Government has, unlike its British counterpart, declined to ask for detailed medical evaluations of the two Australian detainees at Guantanamo Bay, despite mounting allegations of abuse and demands from lawyers representing the men.
The revelations, which undercut repeated assertions that Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks have been treated humanely, come as another man outlined cases of torture in "Gitmo", as the Cuban jail is known.
A former British detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Jamal al-Harith, said he saw Mr Habib bleed from the mouth and ears, and collapse after four days of sleep deprivation.
Mr al-Harith also alleged humiliation techniques including the use of prostitutes to torment the devout Muslim detainees.
"Prostitutes would take down their pants and play with their genitals, push their breasts in their faces and themselves on them," he told Channel Seven.
On one occasion, he said, menstrual blood was smeared on prisoners.
His account adds to a welter of allegations of abuse of Mr Habib and Mr Hicks, in Afghanistan, Cuba and Egypt. The abuse includes electric-shock treatment, regular and prolonged beatings and shackling.
Mr Habib's lawyer, Stephen Hopper, wrote to the Government in February asking for a detailed medical assessment, after reports Mr Habib was mentally disturbed.
"He's been repeating over and over again that the Americans have killed his wife and children," Mr Hopper said last night.
The secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ashton Calvert, yesterday asked for a fresh investigation into allegations of abuse in Afghanistan, in a meeting with officials in Washington.
A spokeswoman said Australian officials "sought and received assurances from medical authorities that Mr Hicks and Mr Habib have access to high-quality medical services, and are in good physical condition".
But the Government has not asked for a medical evaluation, unlike Britain, which has sought and received such evaluations, and also lobbied with some success to have its citizens released or detained and tried at home. Mr Hicks and Mr Habib have been held in Cuba for more than two years without charge.
An Australian consular official, Derek Tucker, visited Guantanamo Bay earlier this month and said the two had not made complaints about abuse.
However, Mr Habib had not answered questions about his treatment. Mr Tucker had not requested a mental health evaluation, the embassy said.
A lawyer with the Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York, which has taken a Supreme Court action on behalf of Mr Habib, said there was an obligation to demand a full medical evaluation.
In other developments, a former chief of the Guantanamo Bay military prison, Brigadier General Rick Baccus, told US Congress he was under constant pressure from intelligence officers to bend his "by-the-book" rules on the treatment of detainees.
It was also reported that the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, last year personally approved aggressive interrogation techniques for suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees to extract more information about the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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