A United Nations human rights expert called on the US to put on trial or release all people detained as “unlawful enemy combatants”, move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba and abolish military commissions.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu today branded the Guantanamo Bay prison camp a “disgrace”.

Interrogators at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison viewed sleep deprivation, stripping inmates naked and threatening them with dogs as normal ways of dealing with ”the enemy”, a soldier attached to military intelligence there said.

British Taliban suspect Feroz Abbasi has lost a High Court battle over the conditions of his detention by the US at Camp X-Ray.