Pentagon denies UN investigator chance to interview Guantánamo detainees

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Source: The Guardian

Pentagon denies UN investigator chance to interview Guantánamo detainees

Spencer Ackerman in New York
Sunday 15 March 2015 19.44 GMT

Shortly after the Pentagon took a battery of pro-Guantánamo US senators for a tour of its infamous detention center, it confirmed that it will deny the United Nations’ torture investigator interviews with Guantánamo Bay detainees.

Juan Méndez, the UN’s special rapporteur on preventing torture, “has been invited to visit Guantánamo; however, he will not be permitted to interview detainees,” Army Lieutenant Colonel Myles Caggins, the Pentagon’s detentions spokesman, told the Guardian.

Méndez told reporters in Geneva last week that he had spurned what he considered hollow offers by the US to visit Guantánamo, citing unacceptable restrictions on his ability to examine the facility for himself.

“I am not allowed to have any unmonitored or even monitored conversations with any inmate in Guantánamo Bay,” Méndez said, according to AFP.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/15/pentagon-un-torture-investigator-interview-guantanamo-detainees

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1. What have we become?

Torture, illegal rendition, permanent incarceration, no representation, and the list goes on.

We are becoming what we once stood against!

This needs to stop now but sadly I think the MIC has taken over much.