| Title: | NJP [Nonjudicial Punishment] Data for Detainee-Related Offenses |
| Date: | July 26, 2004 |
| Origin: | United States. Department of Defense. Joint Task Force Guantánamo. Deputy Staff Judge Advocate |
| To: | United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General |
| Document type: | Memorandum |
| [Classification Unknown] | Excised Copy |
| Pages: | 4 p. |
| Location of original: | American Civil Liberties Union |
| Releasing agency: | United States. Navy |
| ACLU notes: | Facts (name, rank, punishment, etc. - no description of abuse) of six records of detainee-related offenses between October 2001 and July 2004 at Guantánamo Bay. Most facts are redacted. All but one received only administrative punishments. One refused and was court-martialed. A) Incident date: 01/04/04; 101/18/04. Unit: 661st MP Co. Position: Commander, Joint Detention Operations Group, JTF-GTMO [Could be Col. Nelson Cannon]. Offense: assault consummated by battery - splashing a detainee in the face with pine oil; verbal harassment. Punishment: Not guilty on verbal harassment offense. Guilty on assault. reduction to E-1 (Private), forfeiture of $150 pay per month for two months. B) Date of incident: 04/10/03. Unit: 132nd MP Co. Offense: assault consummated by battery- struck a shackled detainee with his fist. Punishment: Reduction to E-3 (Private First Class), 45 days extra duty. C) Incident date: 04-10-03. Unit: 132 MP Co. Offense: Dereliction by improper supervision of [Redacted] - See incidentB). D) Incident date: 06/26/03. Unit: 984th MP Co. Offense: assault - spraying pepper spray on detainee. Punishment: none- soldier refused NJP, tried by Court Martial and acquitted. Also mentioned at DOD 23948 - 23952. E) Incident date: 10/18/02. Unit: 239th MP Co. Assault - attempting to spray detainee with water hose. Punishment: reduction to E-3 [Private First Class]. seven days restriction, suspended. F) Incident date: between April 29 and June 1, 2002. Unit: 401st MP Co. Position: Commander, 401st MP Co. Offense: photographing detainees and detention facility. Punishment: 14 days restriction, 14 days extra duty. |
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| Language: | English |
| Collection: | The Torture Archive |
| Rights: | All information displayed in this record, including any PDF image, is public. |
| Repository: | National Security Archive |
| Date available: | 2010-07-20 |
