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Tuesday 12 Jan 2016 - 11:27 Makkah mean time-2-4-1437
UN rights experts call on U.S. to close Guantánamo detention center (Google image)
New York (IINA) – Human rights experts from the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) called on the U.S. to promptly close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and end impunity for abuses in the so-called "global war on terror", UN News Center reported.
“The United States must clean up its own house – impunity only generates more abuses as States do not feel compelled to stop engaging in illegal practices,” the experts said in an Open Letter published Monday, 14 years after the detention center became operational.
The experts recalled that close to 100 detainees still languish in Guantánamo after years of arbitrary detention without trial, outside the rule of law and the reach of the U.S. regular courts, despite an executive order issued by President Barak Obama in January 2009 to release or transfer them and close the facility within one year.
They also called on the US government "to ensure that current and former Guantánamo detainees as well as individuals who have been secretly detained have access to full redress for violations of their freedom from arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment."
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