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USA: Reaction to plans to expand Guantánamo camp
News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
AI Index: AMR 51/099/2005 17 June 2005
USA: Reaction to plans to expand Guantánamo camp
Following a week of mixed signals from the US
Administration about the future of the Guantánamo Bay
detention camp, Amnesty International said that the
Administration's announcement that it is to expand the
prison is the wrong decision and will fuel worldwide concern
over the stories of torture and ill-treatment, religious
humiliation and arbitrary detention that are seeping from
the facility.
President Bush should close Guantánamo and disclose the situation in the USA's shadowy network of detention centres around the globe. An independent investigation into US policies and practices on detention and interrogation, including torture and ill-treatment, would reassure the world that the US administration has nothing to hide.
Guantánamo has become a symbol of abuse and represents a system of detention that is betraying the best US values and undermines international standards. This is not the time to talk about expansion of Guantánamo camp. It is time to close Guantánamo and disclose the rest.
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