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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8493
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) council of europe

Assembly critical of conditions of detention for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay

Strasbourg, 27/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - In a resolution adopted on Thursday in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Committee of the Council of Europe declared its concern at the conditions of detention for prisoners detained by the USA in Afghanistan and in Guantanamo Bay. It considers these conditions unacceptable and believes "their detention, without any definition of status, is illegal". It points out that the "USA have not met their responsibility with regard to international la of informing...

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