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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9198
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/un/torture/usa

UN calls on US to close Guantanamo and stop using secret prisons

Brussels, 23/05/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 19 May in Geneva the UN Committee against Torture declared that the US should close their prison in Guantanamo, Cuba and put an end to detentions of prisoners in secret detention centres. The UN committee affirmed in its report that, “the US should stop detaining people in Guantanamo Bay and should close the detention centre” allowing prisoners to access legal counsel or be released. The committee noted that the “detention of people for an...

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