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A US flag flies at half-staff at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, August 29, 2021
THE first United Nations independent investigator to visit Guantanamo Bay said on Monday that the 30 men still held at the site are subject to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.
The United States’ naval base in south-eastern Cuba contains the notorious offshore detention centre set up by president George W Bush during the US’s so-called war on terror. The Cuban government considers the miltary presence there illegal.
Issuing her 23-page report to the UN human rights council, the investigator, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain, said that the 2001 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that killed nearly 3,000 people were crimes against humanity.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
