UN demands US close prison at Guantánamo

"United Nations human rights investigators called on the United States on Thursday to shut down the Guantánamo Bay camp and give prisoners quick trials or release them, but the White House promptly dismissed the report.

Arguing that many of the interrogation and detention practices constituted abuses amounting to torture, the report stated, "The United States government should close the Guantánamo Bay detention facilities without further delay."
International Herald Tribune

"In the final version of the report released in Geneva, the UN rapporteurs also charged Washington with violating international human rights treaties to get around their ban on torture.

"'Attempts by the United States administration to redefine "torture" in the framework of the struggle against terrorism in order to allow certain interrogation techniques that would not be permitted under the internationally accepted definition of torture are of utmost concern,' it said.

"'The confusion with regard to authorised and unauthorised interrogation techniques over the last years is particularly alarming.'"
ABC News (Australia)

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