Associated Press reporter Michael Melia recently found himself with downtime while at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, covering a military tribunal for a suspected al-Qaida terrorist, giving him a chance to reflect on the detainees "confined alone in their cells nearly around the clock — conditions that would drive me crazy after five minutes, let alone the five years and counting that many have spent here."
Not to excuse the Bush administration's questionable handling of suspected terrorists — and there is much to question — but the detainees at Gitmo have it easy.
Just imagine how Melia might have felt if he had given any thought to prisoners in the other side rest of the island, prisoners with no right of appeal, with no Supreme Court to ensure their rights and jailed under some of the worst conditions in the world.
Just more proof that too many people — if they know of them in the first place — don't give a damn about Cuba's political prisoners.
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