UN demands US close ‘torture’ camp

THE United States has come under international fire after a United Nations report said it should shut the prison at Guantanamo Bay used for terror suspects and release the detainees or put them on trial.

Fri, 17 Feb, 2006 - 00:00

Sam Cage, Geneva

It also called on the US to refrain from practices that “amount to torture.”

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan last night backed the finding that the camp should be closed

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