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By ask
11/01/2005 01:57:46 PM EST

The UN has long tried to gain access to Guantanamo and has finally received an invitation to go there - however, the 3 UN experts on torture and cruel treatment will not be allowed to meet with detainees!
"It makes no sense [to go]," Manfred Nowak, special investigator on torture and other cruel treatment, told a news conference at U.N. headquarters in New York. "You cannot do a fact-finding mission without talking to the detainees."

You got that right, Mr. Nowak!


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And while the Geneva conventions are "quaint" and the discussion as to whether the UN can access the detainees, Dick Cheney keeps pushing for it to be made legal.
WaPo:
Forty-six Republicans joined 43 Democrats and one independent in voting to define and limit interrogation techniques that U.S. troops may use against terrorism suspects, the latest sign that alarm over treatment of prisoners in the Middle East and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is widespread in both parties. The White House had fought to prevent the restrictions, with Vice President Cheney visiting key Republicans in July and a spokesman yesterday repeating President Bush's threat to veto the larger bill that the language is now attached to -- a $440 billion military spending measure.

by ask on 11/01/2005 02:10:10 PM EST

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