Rights? What Rights?

The United States has admitted that it is holding children 16 years old and younger at its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The children, some of whom have been detained for over a year, are being interrogated as "enemy combatants," a U.S. military spokesman said. The news outraged human rights groups already campaigning against the indefinite detention of about 660 prisoners from the war in Afghanistan. The prisoners have not been charged or allowed access to lawyers. "That the U.S. sees nothing wrong with holding children at Guantanamo and interrogating them is a shocking indicator of how cavalier the Bush administration has become about respecting human rights," said an Amnesty International spokesman.