UN Panel Urges US to Close Prison at Guantanamo

Looks like the UN is officially asking the US to close Gitmo:

Nytimes article

A United Nations panel on torture called on the United States today to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and expressed concern over reports of secret detention centers and of a practice of sending terror suspects to countries with poor human rights records.

In the report, issued by the Committee on Torture in Geneva, the panel said that the United States should clearly ban interrogation techniques like “water boarding,” in which an inmate is held under water to create the fear of drowning; sexual humiliation, and the use of dogs to induce fear. It said that detainees had died during interrogation involving improper techniques.

Posted by Jake Covert on 5/19/2006, evening

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