detainees are saying and if we can talk to one of them right now here in odyssey that of a clive stafford smith of the founder of the legal group reprieve representing several prisoners at the camp including the last remaining a british citizen joining us live from london good to see you today sir thanks for coming on i'll see you or feel they're going ton of a detainee's undergo full body cavity searches just before they can contact their legal representatives camp authorities say that's all lawful and justified or can i ask you though it's not just normal practice inside a prison. no it's not normal practice because let's face it when my clients are coming to have a telephone call me last i heard you can't smuggle anything in and out on the telephone. and so the idea that they threaten the prisoners with full body and i won't go into the really graphic but it's basically a sexual assault is just a threat to try to get them not to talk to us and frankly the reason for this is fairly obvious that there's been an awful lot of information coming out of guantanamo bay that doesn't suit the authori

the captives are being held in unbearable conditions and are subjected to daily harassment clive stafford smith represent several of the hunger strikers and says that they are being forced to keep silent about the truth let's face it when my clients are coming to have a telephone call that me last i heard you can smuggle anything in and out on the telephone. and so the idea that they threaten the prisoners with full body and i won't go into the really graphic but it's basically a sexual assault is just a threat to try to get them not to talk to us and frankly the reason for this is fairly obvious that there's been an awful lot of information coming out of guantanamo bay that doesn't suit the authorities last friday two of my clients refused to have a cold with me for the simple reason that they didn't want to go through that process i had one of the other lawyers from reprieve was at the base last week and twice prisoners didn't want to come out for a visit because of what they've been threatened with in order to negotiate an end to the strike we have to give justice to these prisoners and we'r

bay spokesman contradicts what detainees lawyers are saying we talk to one of them out of a clive stafford smith he represents several inmates there including the last remaining british resident he was the first to reveal some of the harsh methods allegedly used by officials saying detainees now have to undergo degrading body searches just to phone their representatives let's face it when my clients are coming to have a telephone call that me last i heard you can smuggle anything in an out on the telephone and so the idea that they threaten the prisoners with full body and i won't go into the really graphic but it's basically a sexual assault is just a threat to try to get them not to talk to us and frankly the reason for this is fairly obvious that there's been an awful lot of information coming out of guantanamo bay that doesn't suit the authorities last friday two of my clients refused to have called with me for the simple reason that they didn't want to go through that process i had one of the other lawyers from reprieve was at the base last week and twice prisoners didn't want to come out f

and we've also heard from many of the inmates are lawyers and one of them clive stafford smith who represents federal prisoners so it's ridiculous to keep detainees locked up just to prevent them from telling their story but talking about as you well know eighty six of one hundred sixty six prisoners have been cleared for release that's fifty two percent of men third and most of the people i represent there's only one way to end the strike fairly and that is to take the prisoners who've been cleared for release and set them free every single prisoner who's been set free in great britain and of been fourteen of them has behaved impeccably when they came back here unless you think it's wrong to go around telling the truth and giving speeches and writing books but none of them have done any criminal offense say for one who got a traffic ticket one time and it would be so perverse wouldn't it if we argued we can snatch up innocent people abuse them for eleven years and then say because we've had beers then they might hate us therefore we'll keep them forever i mean that's ridiculous keeping the p

indefinite detention and inhumane treatment the majority of them remain held without charge clive stafford smith a human rights lawyer he's defending several detainees in guantanamo says there is yet any indication the facility will be shut down. big problem always for the president is rather is getting the truth and you know of course he hears from this . stuff about how it's all lovely down in guantanamo bay and i think our duty is the representatives of the prisoners to make sure that he has no. one hears about some of the despicable thing that's going on the national defense authorization act and the house and senate in each case that people can the sense that through another country suit what he has to do is say first the country is not a terrorist state and second prisoner can safely go to take shaker aamer no one's going to say great britain is terrorists it's state certainly shakyamuni be safe as houses back here so there's absolutely no excuse for not sending prisoners back very quickly and clearly what we need to do is get rid of the prisoners and. try to send the ones who are acquitte