Irish UN rights chiefs denounce 'detention without trial and torture' at Guantánamo

The 'arbitrary detention without trial accompanied by torture or ill-treatment' was slammed by experts including Prof Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism.

Two Irish UN human rights chiefs have led condemnations of the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, on the 20th anniversary of its first detainees.

Almost 800 Muslim males have been held over that time at the base, located on Cuban soil, since 2002, all but a handful without charge or trial, said Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism, and Professor of Law at Queen’s University, Belfast.