NYC RNC: Pier 57 Likened To Guantanamo

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Pier 57 Likened To Guantanamo
Sep 1, 2004 4:29 pm US/Eastern

NEW YORK (AP) To the protesters, it's Guantanamo on the Hudson. Police prefer the acronym PASS, though no one gets one.

>>>Some protesters have complained bitterly about conditions at the temporary holding area set up by police at Pier 57 in Chelsea for processing convention-related arrests. One former detainee, Andrew Lynn, claimed he was held there for hours on end in "Guantanamo-style pens" — a reference to the U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

>>>At a news conference Tuesday outside the holding facility, Lynn, civil rights lawyer Norman Siegel and transportation union officials raised concerns about possible asbestos contamination there, and complained that people were being held too long.

The protesters, Lynn added, were held 40 to a pen and forced to sleep on floors covered with motor oil. (Police say they could sit on benches.)

Conditions were "absolutely disgusting," Lynn said.


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[AmandaRuth]

1. just heard on the radio

sorry no link - that GOP delegates were accidentally swept up with the protesters. Good!!! Let them see what happens when you exercise your constitutional right of protest . I can only imagine what the protesters must be saying to them in the cages, maybe a little loud deprogramming.

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2. I wondered if that was so

Good. I wonder how many are still in jail with the over 500 remaining?