A UN human rights expert said Tuesday that she had received a “preliminary invitation” from Washington to travel to Guantánamo military prison, in what would be the first visit after two decades of petitions.
A wide range of UN experts have unsuccessfully requested access to the prison, located on Cuban territory, since it began receiving prisoners accused of terrorism in 2002.
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, the UN's leading expert on the protection of human rights in the context of the fight against terrorism, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday that she had received an invitation from Washington.
“I am pleased to report at this Council session that the US government has issued a preliminary invitation to conduct a technical visit to the United States Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay (Cuba),” he said.
He stressed that the situation of prisoners still in the facility “constitutes a continuous violation of international law”.
Guantánamo prison, which once housed nearly 800 people captured around the world, today houses 38 men, some of them for two decades.
He noted that the UN Special Rapporteur on torture had “determined that the current conditions in Guantánamo constitute circumstances that reach the threshold of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment under international law.”
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