The first UN investigator allowed inside the notorious US prison at Guantanamo Bay said the 30 remaining detainees in the facility are facing “ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.”
UN special rapporteur Fionnuala Ni Aolain issued a report on the facility and told reporters in New York that “significant improvements” have been made in Gitmo since torture at the prison was exposed but said the 30 men who remain are living with their past experiences.
“I observed that after two decades of custody, the suffering of those detained is profound, and it’s ongoing,” she said. “Every single detainee I met with lives with the unrelenting harms that follow from systematic practices of rendition, torture, and arbitrary detention.”
Ni Aolain said their “past experiences of torture live with them in the present without any obvious end in sight, including because they have not received any adequate torture rehabilitation to date.” According to AP, she said the 30 men still face harsh treatment, including constant surveillance, forced removal from their cells, and the unjust use of restraints.
Ni Aolain made several recommendations, including the shuttering of the facility. She said the US government must apologize for torturing the detainees and provide reparations. “The US government must urgently provide judicial resolution, apology, and guarantees of non-repetition,” Ni Aolain said.
Monday marked the UN observance of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The State Department issued a statement that said the US “reaffirms our condemnation of torture wherever and whenever it occurs and stands in solidarity with victims and survivors of torture around the world.”
The statement comes as the Biden administration is seeking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for his role in exposing US war crimes. Assange has been held in London’s Belmarsh prison on no charges since April 2019. Nils Melzer, a Swiss professor who served as a UN special rapporteur on torture from 2016-2022, determined that Assange’s treatment amounts to prolonged psychological torture.
It took UN more than two decades to come up with this conclusion? You wonder why U.N is seen as a worthless body of bureaucrats.
Or that the US is a bastion of freedom and humanitarianism.
Why is the UN in New York? Shouldn’t it be in a neutral country? One with no nukes. One that does not have 800+ military bases spread all over the world?
The UN was created by the victors of WW2. The UN was never created as a neutral body.
Why aren’t Germany or Japan on the UN security council?
Contrary to what the globalists want, the UN is not yet a global government responsible for policing the world.
But globalist would love that idea, nevertheless.
And here’s Blinken just a few hours ago on twitter, waxing lyrical about America’s commitment to the International Day Against Torture.
I kid you not. Just incredible
https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1673304039977627648?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Wow…. just wow……
Nope, you are not kidding. Vile, isn’t it?
Even his mother must loathe him. And Joe Biden the good Catholic.
Free Assange.
But Putin.
The State Department issued a statement that said the US “reaffirms our condemnation of torture wherever or whenever it occurs and stands in solidarity with victims and survivors of torture around the world.”
“Ní Aoláin said her visit marked the first time a U.S, administration has allowed a U.N. investigator to visit the facility, which opened in 2002.”
We are so against torture that it only took 20+ years to let the UN check out our offshore gulag.
All legally checked out by a lawyer called Devil-Santes I think. But don’t take my word for it, I’m bad with hybrid devil but saint names. Sorry, I meant hyphenated (sarcasm)
Yeah, Trump is right about him. Of course, for the wrong reasons, but still right.
Mr. Trump up the number of drone attacks, bettering Obama, the “I’m good at killing”, president.
Agree 100%. You have actually uncovered another thread. When he’s right about things, it’s usually for the wrong reasons and the people he hires for solutions become reasons for bigger problems. LOL
Victims of torture at Gitmo have identified pictures of him as being there when torture was being administered, and, smiling. Vile.
I can’t imagine the damage these men could do to the US if they were free outweighs the damage they do to the US through their imprisonment.
The western media including in Europe, is on a consensus propaganda mission.
I remember Obama saying that his first day in office he would close Guantanamo. Guess he must have been shown the unedited Zapruder film. No words were necessary.
Thank you for bringing that up. Allen Dulles conceived of the assassination of JFK. I believe with all of my heart. I also believe it was a warning not to tempt the MIC, or………………….
I don’t think he’d been offed for that. I think it was just more of him being full of shit and looking for votes. His 8 years proved that.
“” more of him being full of shit and looking for votes “”
Political Campaigning For Dummies 101
Trump spoke in favor of using torture.
Even suggesting that we should go after (kill) “terrorists” family members.
Brought to those poor souls by the “White House on the Hill”, the “Indispensable One”, in violation of the Constitution, and laws against torture.
Amen, the indispensable nation that only jails the person who exposes their illegal torture and protects the ones who are committing it, while oozing moral superiority out of its a$$. (Sarcasm)
What’s the fuss all about? From pictures of that “facility,” it appears to the entire world that each detainee is blindfolded and peacefully enjoying the Cuban hot/humid climate in their own dog cage with their hands tied behind their back. If this is not a perfect example as to why we’re not the most humane country with the highest level of moral superiority, I wouldn’t know exactly why we wouldn’t be? We’re exceptional and indispensable, while we $hit moral authority out of the mouth. Assange, you think you have it bad in England? You will soon enjoy your own US issued “facility.” Chosen for you by her highness, Killary Clinton herself. She wanted to drone your a$$, but we convinced her this was more humane. Sorry for the typo in advance. And, no, this didn’t make me feel any better. (Really bad sarcasm alert)
And Pompeo was planning to assassinate him
Absolutely, Pompeo is no better than Killary.
I believe Mr. Pomp graduated #1 in his class at West Point. So, he is all kill all the time. Ring-pounder.
I agree with you and although she never graduated from West Point, I’m confident Killary would still accuse you and me of being “misogynists.” She feels she deserves that title of “all kill all the time!” In fact, she’s writing a book about it. (Sarcasm and lies)
Mr. Trump floated the idea that the CIA get Assange, then kill him.
I don’t think I’ve read this.
I do know that he approved charges.
it was a torture facility right from it’s opening 21 years ago
Obama said he was going to close Gitmo.
Not knowing if you have a release date has to be the worst part.
I’ve done time and know those who are doing all day (life) and are resigned to it.
Most view prison as their home/world with everyone else as visitors.
It is a very hard concept to “get” without doing time in a max (jail time does not count kids;-).
Almost all CO’s get it and operate that way because they want to go home and realize they actually are just visiting until their shift is over.
Not knowing if Gitmo is your “home” or if you are just visiting is likely the worst thing about being there.