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TEHRAN (FNA)- Hundreds of people are expected to gather at
Chicago’s Homan Square on Saturday to protest against an alleged police
interrogation facility where detainees are denied basic rights.
The Chicago police department reportedly
operates a secret interrogation compound, similar to the CIA’s black sites, at
the Homan Square warehouse. Practices at the site allegedly include beatings,
prolonged shackling and denying detainees legal counsel, RIA Novosti reported.
"I have spoken with several people who have
been detained and several attorneys who have represented the detained, so
people are coming forward, but the more people who do, the harder it will be
for CPD to claim this isn't happening at Homan Square," one of the
organizers, Billy Joe Mills, wrote on the protest’s Facebook event page.
Some 1,500 people are listed as attending, while
another 300 have responded that they may be going.
The goals of the demonstration are a public
inspection of the alleged interrogation site, a roundtable discussion on the
matter, making information available to the public, and for all Chicago
detainees to be given access to their attorneys, according to the Facebook
page.
Organizers, which include Chicago Anonymous,
urge anyone who has been detained at the Homan Square to come forward, as well
as police officers who have knowledge of the situation.
Last week, Anthony Hill, an attorney
specializing in criminal defense matters, said that detainees at Homan Square
are held incommunicado and forced to give false confessions.
The Chicago police rejected the claims stating
that they abide by all laws.
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