U.N. Calls Guantanamo a U.S. Torture Camp

[mom cat]

U.N. Calls Guantanamo a U.S. Torture Camp

By SAM CAGE
The Associated Press
Thursday, February 16, 2006; 4:31 PM

GENEVA -- The United States must close its detention facility at Guantanamo Bay because it is effectively a torture camp where prisoners have no access to justice, a U.N. report released Thursday concluded.

The White House rejected the recommendation.

The 54-page report summarizing an investigation by five U.N. experts accused the United States of practices that "amount to torture" and demanded detainees be allowed a fair trial or freed. The investigators did not visit the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"Those people should be released or brought before an independent court," Manfred Nowak, the U.N. investigator for torture, told The Associated Press. "That should not be done in Guantanamo Bay, but before ordinary U.S. courts, or courts in their countries of origin or perhaps an international tribunal."

The United States should allow "a full and independent investigation" at Guantanamo and also give the United Nations access to other detention centers, including secret ones, in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, Nowak said by telephone from his office in Vienna, Austria.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021600318.html

[LynnTheDem]

1. And water is wet.

I despise what America is now.

But that puts me in with the majority of the world's people.

[mom cat]

2. Hey! We are not part of the minority anymore!

[Supersedeas]

3. but McButterpants calls it a re-hash of old allegations