A group of 140 arrested after the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2020 who are awaiting trial, sent a letter this Monday complaining about the conditions in the Washington DC jail where they are being held, and asked to be “transferred” to the Washington DC detention center. Guantánamo.
Through a seven-page letter written by hand, the inmates lamented their current conditions, and asked the Court to send them to the prison where they are accused of Islamic terrorism, reported the Efe agency.
The letter details that, including in Guantánamo, which is located on the island of Cuba, but belongs to US territory, the conditions could be better than those they live in right now.
Part of the prisoners’ complaints is the poor quality of the meals, where they claimed to see worms, lack of access to legal services, poor state of the facilities in general and alleged racism promoted by prison officials.
The letter came to light just when the trial for sedition began several members of the right-wing group Oath Keepers, which includes its founder, Stewart Rhodes, who is accused of his active role in the assault on the Capitol.
Both Rhodes and four of the members of Oath Keepers are accused of conspiring to try to stop the victory of Joe Biden in the presidential elections of 2020 with the use of force, in the that Donald Trump had to deliver the mandate.
The accusation states that the five members kept weapons, ammunition and gr hand wadings in a hotel near the US capital with the aim of “preventing several congressmen from certifying the elections,” according to prosecutor Jeffrey Nestler.
During the attack, which left five dead and more than 140 wounded officers, Rhodes was in the building supervising the operation, while another of the defendants, Kelly Meggs, commanded a group of 14 followers to enter the interior of the legislative building, where they were divided into two groups of seven: one directed to the Senate and the other to the House of Representatives.
With information from Efe agency