US ‘violating detainees’ human rights’

THE United States is violating a host of human rights, including a ban on torture, arbitrary detention and the right to a fair trial at Guantanamo Bay prison, a United Nations report said yesterday.

“The United States government should close the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities without further delay,” the human rights’ rapporteurs declared.

Until then, the US should “refrain from any practice amounting to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.