Monday, March 19, 2007
ON THE UP SIDE, IT’S A CINCH TO CLEAN
Dare you enter David’s Miniature Chamber of Doom?
A life-sized replica of David Hicks’s Guantanamo Bay cell has gone on display in the middle of Sydney’s CBD in an effort to show people what life’s like for the Australian terror suspect.
Passers-by who entered the cramped, florescent-lit, white-walled structure, which was set up in Martin Place today by human rights organisation Amnesty International, described the experience as traumatising.
“No one should be subject to that no matter what he has done and there’s nothing proven that he’s done,” said 20-year-old student Claire Dawson, who was close to tears after spending less than two minutes alone inside the 1.8 metre wide, 2.4 metre long structure.
I don’t suppose she’s ever been inside a photo booth. Or a burqa.