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Guantanamo prisoners tell independent visitor about the scars of torture
Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, on April 18, 2019

THE first independent visitor to Guantanamo Bay prison has been told by remaining inmates that she is “too late.”

For the first time since the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba opened in 2002, a United States president has allowed a United Nations independent investigator to visit.

Fionnuala Ni Aolain, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and at Queens University in Belfast, was reported today as acknowledging with just 30 prisoners remaining she had come too late.

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