The first UN investigator to enter the detention centre says detainees suffer ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.
Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin says 30 men held at the Guantanamo detention centre are subject "to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law".She has called on the US government to close the facility and apologise"I observed that after two decades of custody, the suffering of those detained is profound, and it's ongoing," she said.
Because, as she stressed repeatedly, information obtained by torture cannot be used at trials and the United States has committed to not doing so.The visit — by the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism — marked the first time a US administration has allowed a UN investigator to enter the facility.
While admitting "significant improvements" had been made, she expressed "serious concerns" for those who remained. But she said there was "a heartfelt response" by many detainees to seeing someone who was neither a lawyer nor associated with the detention centre, some for the first time in 20 years.The US government has been told it should close the Guantanamo Bay prison immediately.
Many also suffer from the deprivation of support from their families and community and also "hunger striking and force-feeding, self-harm and suicidal thoughts, and accelerated ageing," she said.
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