U.N. URGES UNITED STATES TO CLOSE SECRET JAILS

PanARMENIAN.Net
19.05.2006 16:28 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The United Nations called on the United States
to shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp and other secret jails run in
offshore states where suspects in terrorism are kept. According to
the U.N.

committee the prisoners are subjected to tortures what is the violation
of the U.N. Geneva Convection against torture. U.S. representative
stated at the committee sitting that cases of torture and inhuman
treatment in Guantanamo and other prisons are rare. Although the
statements by the U.N. committee members have no juridical force the
experts serving on it carry authority, reported Lenta.ru.