UN calls for Guantanamo closure
UN human rights investigators have called for the immediate closure of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay.
The UN report on conditions in the Cuba camp says the US should try all inmates or free them "without further delay".
Some aspects of the treatment of the 500-strong camp population amount to torture, the UN team alleges.
The US has rejected most of the allegations, saying that the five investigators never actually visited Guantanamo Bay.
It called the report's conclusions "largely without merit and not based clearly in the facts".
One of the five investigators responsible for the report, UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak, said that the detention of inmates for years without charge amounted to arbitrary detention.
"Those persons either have to be released immediately or they should be brought to a proper and competent court and tried for the offences they are charged with,"
via BBC
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