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First UN investigator at US detention center at Guantanamo says detainees face cruel treatment

Por: WPLG Local 10 Politics June 26, 2023

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TANZANIA – The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Monday the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.” The investigator, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, said at a news conference launching her 23-page report to the U.N. Human Rights Council that the 2001 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that... + full article



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