Friday, February 23, 2007

Padilla: "unfit" to stand trial


After three and a half years detained without trial or any real charges, Jose Padilla has been deemed unfit to stand trial due to suffering from intense stress and anxiety (aka torture).
The psychiatrist said Mr Padilla suffered from a facial tic, problems with social contact, lack of concentration and a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

So... The US government imprisoned this man for over three years, tortured him, and now he is unable to stand trial.
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On May 8, 2002 Padilla was arrested and held as a material witness on a warrant stemming from the September 11, 2001 attacks.
On June 9, 2002, two days before District Court Judge Michael Mukasey was to issue a ruling on the validity of continuing to hold Padilla under the material witness warrant, President Bush issued an order to Secretary Rumsfeld to detain Padilla as an "enemy combatant."
Padilla was being detained without any criminal charges being formally made against him, he, through his lawyer, made a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The government filed a motion to dismiss the petition.
On November 22, 2005, Padilla had finally been indicted on charges he "conspired to murder, kidnap and maim people overseas." (None of the original allegations put forward by the U.S. government three years ago, the claims that held Padilla in the majority in solitary confinement throughout that period, were part of the indictment)
One of the the three charges against Padilla was dismissed and another was dismissed in part... then the charge was reinstated.

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