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"en.20060116.13.1-022"2
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"Mr President, four years ago, the United States was transferring its first prisoners of the war against terrorism, hooded and chained, to the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay on its naval base in Cuba. Around 500 people, from 35 countries, are still being held, without charge or sentence, deprived of the rights recognised by international law. There are an increasing number of reports of torture and of poor treatment of the detainees in this centre. In fact, the prisoners remain in a ‘lawless’ situation. They are often put in isolation, sometimes for months on end, for having infringed the camp’s strict operational rules. Several have attempted suicide. The United States’ plan to have the detainees tried by military commissions will only heighten the injustice because these commissions are not independent and because they admit statements obtained through the use of force or torture. In these conditions, is it not about time we lent our support to those in Europe who are calling for the closure of this centre?"@en1
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