14718960 A prisoner at Guantanamo has died after a sports
In jail on a military base at Guantanamo Bay prisoner died. On this Feb. 3 news agency Associated Press. Tuesday, 48-year-old Gul Aval (Awal Gul) from Afghanistan to the prison gym. After exercise on a simulator Gul felt unwell and lost consciousness. He was taken to the prison hospital where he later died. According to preliminary results of an autopsy, the man's death was caused by a heart attack or from pulmonary embolism. Nevertheless, the death of a prisoner is under investigation. Aval Gul called one of the most exemplary inmates at Guantanamo. For good behavior, he was transferred to the zone with relaxed conditions of detention and allowed to go to the gym. Gul held at Guantanamo for more than eight years. No charges brought against him was not, release him and not going. According to the CIA, Gul was a prominent member of the Taliban and to recruit new recruits. According to operational information, Gul worked closely with al-Qaeda and even met several times with Osama bin Laden. At the same time, the attorney Matthew Dodge (Matthew Dodge), defending the interests of the prisoners at Guantanamo, said that Gul was kept on the base illegally. According to him, the authorities had no evidence against Gul, so it was planned to keep on the base as long as possible. The lawyer also claimed that during the war in Afghanistan in 1980 Gul has collaborated with the U.S. and only then, in desperation, went over to the Taliban. Ranks of the Taliban, he left for a year before the attacks on September 11, 2001. Aval Gul was detained in Afghanistan in December 2001 when he, according to the lawyer, was driving to a meeting with the American military. "Mr Gul will never pose a threat to the United States" – concludes lawyer Dodge, according to whom the deceased was a kind and sympathetic man, do not lose hope ever to be released. Aval Gul became the seventh prisoner who died in prison at Guantanamo Bay since its opening in January 2002. Five, the official version, committed suicide, another died of cancer. Human rights activists accuse the authorities of falsifying evidence and cover-up of these causes of death in custody. Closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay where terrorism suspects have been for years without charges, is one of the main promises of Barack Obama. According to Obama's plan, all inmates (more than 170 people) will have a chance to prove his innocence in the civil courts. First Guantanamo detainees who were given the opportunity, got a life sentence.
