2023-06-27 15:32:07
The 30 men still being held at the US detention center at Guantánamo Bay are subjected “to continuous cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment,” said the first independent United Nations (UN) investigator to visit the site.
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The expert asked the Government of the United States (USA) to apologize for the inhumane treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, Cuba, which was established by the administration of former US President George W. Bush. in 2002 following the attacks of September 11, 2001.
The UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Fionnuala Ni Aolain, said the 30 men still being held there are subjected to “continuous cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”.
The closure of the US prison in Guantanamo “remains a priority,” said the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the fight once morest terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, on Monday. pic.twitter.com/yIJ2yx2DNW
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“I want to acknowledge that significant improvements have been made to the conditions of confinement at the Guantánamo Bay detention center. That said, I still have serious concerns regarding the continued detention of the 30 men who remain there and the persistent arbitrariness that permeates their day – the current existence,” he commented.
“My report details structural deficiencies and systematic arbitrariness, including in training, operational procedures, and enforcement of detainees’ rights to medical care, family, counseling, and justice,” he said.
The report sets out in detail how such arbitrariness creates profound insecurity, suffering and anxiety for all detainees without exception, it said. “I observed that following two decades of detention, the suffering of the detainees is deep and continues.”
“Each of the detainees I met live with the unrelenting harm that stems from systematic practices of rendition, torture and arbitrary detention… And their past experiences of torture live with them in the present with no apparent end to them. even because they have not received any proper rehabilitation for torture to date,” Ni Aolain said.
The use of torture by the US once morest the alleged perpetrators and their accomplices in the years following the 2001 attacks violated human rights and, in many cases, deprived victims and survivors of justice, as the Information obtained through martyrdom cannot be used in trials, the Irish diplomat said.
As for the 741 men who have been released from Guantanamo, he said, many were left alone, without legal identity, education and job training, adequate physical and mental health care, and continue to experience “sustained human rights violations.” poverty, social exclusion and stigma.
Ni Aolain was appointed special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism by the UN Human Rights Council. He took over from him in August 2017.
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