UN ‘has reliable accounts’ of torture at US base

UN human rights experts seeking to visit the US base at Guantanamo Bay said yesterday they have reliable accounts that suspected terror detainees being held there have been tortured.

The four independent experts said the US had not responded to their numerous requests to check on the conditions of terror suspects at the US Naval base in Cuba, as well as US facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places of detention.

They said their request for a visit was “based on information, from reliable sources, of serious allegations of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees, arbitrary detention, violations of their right to health and their due process rights.”