UN investigator reports cruel and inhuman treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay
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The first UN independent investigator to visit the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, has released a report stating that the 30 men held there are subject to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law. She praised the Biden administration for leading by example by opening up Guantanamo and urged other countries that have barred UN access to detention facilities to follow suit. Ní Aoláin made a long series of recommendations and said the prison at Guantanamo Bay should be immediately closed, a goal of the Biden administration.
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