The ex Guantanamo Bay chief, Geoffrey Miller, has been ordered to appear in a French court to answer claims of torture used at the detention facility over a decade ago, following a lawsuit from two French citizens who were former inmates.
Rt.com reports:
French citizens Nizar Sassi and Mourad Benchellali have filed a lawsuit in a French court against the former Guantanamo chief, demanding a criminal probe into his actions.
On Thursday, the court granted the complaint, summoning the former American general to France for a hearing.
The French judge’s decision might set a precedent for more prosecutions of US military personnel who served at Guantanamo Bay.
“The door has opened for civilian and military officials to be prosecuted over international crimes committed in Guantanamo,” the former Guantanamo prisoners’ lawyer William Bourdon said. “This decision can only… lead to other leaders being summoned,” Bourdon said as cited by AFP.
#Guantanamo‘s Charade of Justice http://t.co/RSst9G8Ugp If public knew the truth abt GTMO charade would end quickly. pic.twitter.com/67NuIeBYXc
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) March 29, 2015
With US combat role in Afghanistan ended, why are 5 Afghans still held in Guantanamo (13 yrs)? http://t.co/WfF8752OXY pic.twitter.com/rrKHLdQbuo
— Kenneth Roth (@KenRoth) March 31, 2015
In Russia, retired US Army Major General Geoffrey D. Miller is on a black list.
In 2013, in response to the so-called ‘Magnitsky list,’ Russia named 18 Americans banned from entering the Russian Federation over alleged human rights violations. Former commandant of Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), the organization that runs the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, was added to that list, along with other American governmental officials “involved in legalizing torture and indefinite detention of prisoners (The Guantanamo List).”