Disgraceful

This morning on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme John Humphrys interviewed the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Colleen Graffy, about this Guantanamo man tells of 'torture'

A Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay has told the BBC in a rare interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture.
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The BBC submitted questions for Fawzi al-Odah to his lawyer, Tom Wilner, who has access to the camp, but was unable to challenge Mr Odah's responses.

Mr Odah was one of 84 inmates at Guantanamo who went on hunger strike in December. Just four remain defiant.

Now reading this news story makes me depressed but then I read this piece of news - Tunisia denies holding political prisoners

Tunisia has expressed regret that the US State Department seemed to be giving credence to claims by human-rights groups that the North African country holds political prisoners.

The State Department said on Wednesday that the US welcomed Tunisia's decision to free or grant conditional parole to more than 1600 prisoners.

Adam Ereli, the State Department's deputy spokesman, said some had been described by human rights groups, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and independent observers as political prisoners.

I don't think at this precise moment at time the US is in any position to lecture about 'upholding human rights' when they are ignoring them at home.

It makes me even more angry when the US (and the UK) think they can take the moral highground on matters such as this, when they are locking people up without trial and force feeding them back home.