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Chile Group Says Close Guantanamo

CHILE , December 20, 2006.- About 420 people from 35 countries are imprisoned in the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , without being declared guilty of any crime at all, Chilean International Amnesty (IA) denounced Wednesday.

Detainees, IA added, do not have access to any independent court, many of them have no lawyer nor family visits, and near 200 of them have gone on hunger strike in protest of bad conditions.

When convening the seminar "Terrorism: Humanitarian Challenge," the organization described US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as "an outrage for human rights and a symbol of injustice" of Washingtons so called war against terrorism.

Chilean IA demanded that the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , immediate close and urged the US to take all detainees to a court of justice, or on the contrary immediately release them.

Since September 11, 2001 the United States and its allies have "kidnapped people and imprisoned them in secret, moved them from one country to another and subjected them to torture and mistreatment in detainee camps, like Guantanamo or other secret places," IA expressed. (Cubaminrex-PL)

 

 

 

 

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