From Guantanamo to Bagram

Andy Worthington has an article arguing that Bagram prison in Afghanistan is the new Guantanamo.
He writes:
According to the best available estimates, at least 600 prisoners are held at Bagram, but unlike Guantánamo, no lawyer has ever set foot in the U.S. military’s flagship Afghan prison, even though some of the prisoners held there were seized in other countries and "rendered" to Bagram, where they have been held for up to seven years. The prison was particularly notorious in its early days – especially in 2002, when at least two prisoners died at the hands of U.S. forces – but according to a survey conducted by the BBC in June this year, former prisoners, held between 2002 and 2008, stated that they were beaten, deprived of sleep, and threatened with dogs, and they provided no indication that conditions had improved from the beginning to the end of the six-year period.

There are two kinds of prisoners at Bagram: about 30 are foreigners from around the world (non Afghans) who have been brought there by the US, and the others are Afghans.

At the moment one important issue is: Will those foreign detainees at Bagram have the right to challenge their detention (habeas corpus)? A US judge ruled that they could, but it remains to be seen if this will be implemented.

Concerning the Afghan prisoners at Bagram, Worthington concludes:
"From what I have been able to gather about the workings of Bagram, I have no reason to conclude that the prison is now being run according to the Geneva Conventions".