Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 6:27 am
GENEVA (11 January 2021) – UN human rights experts*
today appealed to the new U.S. Administration to immediately
close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, saying the
remaining detainees risk death from rapidly deteriorating
health by old age and mental and physical harm suffered in
cruel and inhuman conditions of
imprisonment.
“Guantánamo is a place of
arbitrariness and abuse, a site where torture and
ill-treatment was rampant and remains institutionalised,
where the rule of law is effectively suspended, and where
justice is denied,” the experts said on the 19th
anniversary of its establishment on 11 January,
2002.
They said the COVID-19 pandemic further