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USA: UNITED NATIONS: Guantánamo Bay, 14 years on – Rights experts urge the US to end impunity and close the detention facility
11 January 2016
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Guantánamo Bay, 14 years on – Rights experts urge the US to end impunity and close the detention facility (OHCHR, link):
"A group of human rights experts from the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have urged the United States Government to put an end to impunity for the human rights and humanitarian law violations committed in the so-called ‘global war on terror’, and to promptly close down the Guantánamo Bay detention facility."
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Open Letter to the Government of the United States of America on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility (pdf):
"In order to fully implement these obligations, the United States Government must end impunity for the violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed as part of the so-called “war on terror.” Everyone implicated, including at the highest level of authority, must be held accountable for ordering or executing extraordinary renditions, secret detention, arbitrary arrest of civilians and so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the name of combatting terrorism."
- AMNESTY:
Guantánamo: The USA must turn its back on international symbol of injustice (Amnesty International, link):
"Guantánamo remains open because politicians are exploiting the public’s genuine fear of terror attacks. Instead of identifying effective and legal measures to prevent attacks, members of Congress are busy playing politics with the lives of dozens of men who could die behind bars without ever facing a trial,” said Naureen Shah, Director of Amnesty International USA's Security and Human Rights Programme.
... There are currently 104 detainees held in the US detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- 45 of whom have been cleared for transfer yet remain behind bars."
- See also:
Sami al-Hajj: Remembering Guantanamo (Al Jazeera, link):
"Very few detainee cases have ever gone to trial. And today, there are still innocent people – people who have been told that they pose no threat – in Guantanamo. It is an inhumane place; an insult to humanity."