US 'setting bad example for human rights'

THE US's activities at Guantanamo Bay could encourage countries around the world to abuse human rights, Amnesty International claimed yesterday.

US 'setting bad example for human rights'

US President George W Bush's policy of imprisoning people without trial at the Camp Delta base in Cuba and at other military prisons in Afghanistan was setting a bad example, the charity warned. The human rights group said the US had created "unchallengeable executive power" for itself in the so-called war on terror.

Detainees at Guantanamo, including nine Britons, were being subjected to a "parallel justice system" and there had been reports of mistreatment, it added.

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