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UN Experts Denounced US Tortures in Guantanamo

United Nations, Jun 24 (Prensa Latina) Senior UN human rights experts have denounced the US government’s failure to allow them to visit detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo naval base, following serious allegations of cruel torture.

A statement issued in Geneva underlines that Washington has ignored their repeated requests, thus showing it is not willing to cooperate with the United Nations human rights office on this issue that has unleashed world denunciation.

After stressing that no nation is above international human rights law, the UN experts said they will jointly conduct an quest based on all credible sources regarding the situation of the detainees at the Pentagon’s prison camp in Guantanamo.

The statement was signed by Leandro Despouy, Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and lawyers; Paul Hunt, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and Mandred Nowak, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Another signer of the UN statements is Leila Zerrougui, Chairwoman-Rapparteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, who represents all working groups of the Special Procedures of the UN Commission on Human Rights.

The experts stressed they have reports, from reliable sources, of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees, arbitrary detention, violations of their right to health and due process rights.

 

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