DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Release of Photo of Guantanamo Detainees

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DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Release of Photo of Guantanamo Detainees.

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Non-legal Memo
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https://www.thetorturedatabase.org/node/5976
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Wednesday, December 29, 2004
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UNCLASSIFIED

RELEASED IN FULL
Release of Photographs of Detainees at Guantanamo by USG.

The photographing of detainees at Guantanamo, and public
disclosure of these photographs by USG officials in early
January, 2002, received considerable media attention and
criticism from the international community. Rules
governing the photographing of detainees and OSD public
affairs guidance are based upon Article 13, Third Geneva
Convention of 1949, which provides that "prisoners of war
must at all times by protected, particularly against acts
of violence or intimidation and against insults and public
curiosity". While this provision does not expressly
prohibit the taking of photographs, the USG has interpreted
this to mean that taking photographs and publishing them in
newspapers or journals would be holding the prisoners up to
public curiosity and therefore forbidden.H

However,
published OSD Public Affairs Guidance at that time
permitted photo/video coverage of detainees as long as such
coverage did not identify the individual detainees by name
or by image. Current PA guidance regarding photographing
of Iraqi POWs prohibits photographs that show their
recognizable face, nametag or other identifying feature.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY: SHARON E AHM AD DATE/CASE ID: 16 NOV 2004 200303827
DOS-000440
UNCLASSIFIED

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5976
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63