World

CIA Suspected of Guantanamo Torture

by Jarrett Martineau | December 13, 2007 at 12:21 pm

484 views | 0 Recommendations | 3 comments

Reuters reports that a UN investigator believes the CIA has tortured suspected terrorists being held at Gitmo. No charges, no trial -- no abuse, right?

A United Nations investigator said on Thursday he strongly suspected the CIA of using torture on terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, suggesting many were not being prosecuted to keep the abuse from emerging at trial.

On a visit to the U.S. detention centre in Cuba last week, Martin Scheinin, U.N. special rapporteur on protecting human rights while countering terrorism, attended a pre-trial hearing of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver.

Scheinin said U.S. officials had told him that of the roughly 300 detainees currently held at Guantanamo, 80 were expected to face military trials for suspected crimes. Another 80 inmates had been cleared for release, he said.

No decision had been made to either prosecute or release the remaining 150, including many so-called "high value" detainees, he said. Some have been held six years without trial.

0 See all footage | View Slideshow

Share: email story | add to any | | facebook | stumbleupon

recommend Sign In or Join to post comments

mpress

at 14:25 on December 13th, 2007

Maybe the UN should worry about all the real genocide they have ignored over the years in Africa instead of being so concerned about what happens to the same people who attacked them in Algiers. Maybe they should worry about protecting their own people instead of protecting those who want them dead.. Millions of people in Africa alone have been killed right under the UN flags....And they were silent...I say they put some of those investigators to look into making sure their offices are not bombed..That might be a better use of their time..