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SLG
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 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: UN tells US what we've all been thinking |
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| Quote: | Shut Guantanamo Bay and stop torture, UN report tells US
THE United States should release all detainees being held at its detention centre in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, or bring them to trial and shut the facility down, the United Nations said in a report released today.
The 54-page report, summarising an investigation by five UN experts, called on the US government "to close down the Guantanamo Bay detention centre and refrain from any practice amounting to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment".
But the US ambassador to UN offices in Geneva, Kevin Moley, responded that the investigation had taken little account of evidence provided by the United States and that the five UN experts rejected an invitation to visit Guantanamo.
"It is particularly unfortunate that the special rapporteurs rejected the invitation and that their unedited report does not reflect the direct, personal knowledge that this visit would have provided," Mr Moley wrote in a response that was included at the end of the report.
The United States had invited the experts to Guantanamo, but would not let them interview detainees, so they refused to go.
The findings were based on interviews with former detainees, public documents, news reports, lawyers and a questionnaire filled out by the US government. |
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=245192006
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Morph
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: |
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But will they listen? if they want to be seen as a liberator of people and a democratic champion then they really need to sort out their current situation. Torture flights, brutality and now what look to be an upmarket concentration camp. Not looking good
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sandmountainslim
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Nina
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: |
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| Morph wrote: | | ...if they want to be seen as a liberator of people and a democratic champion... |
Hahahahaha... I had a good laugh there... "Liberator of people, Democratic champion"  Sorry Morph, I am not laughing about you at all, it is just those words.
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Morph
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i meant this was the image they were trying to put across not my oppinion of them
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Nina
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I know Morph, that's why I said that I was not laughing about you.
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Wolf of Badenoch
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| Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: |
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Aye yer richt though they dae like tae see theirsels as "liberator of people" when theres something in it for themsels....usually oil.
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