Europe rights body accuses US of torture

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/27/europe_rights_body_accuses_us_of_torture/

STRASBOURG, France -- Europe's human rights body condemned the United States yesterday for using what it termed torture on terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and it called on European countries not to cooperate in interrogating Guantanamo detainees.

A Pentagon spokesman said the United States was running ''a safe, humane and professional detention operation at Guantanamo that is providing valuable information in the war on terror."

In a resolution, the Council of Europe also urged the United States to cease the practice of secret detentions and to investigate all instances of unlawful treatment of detainees at the naval base in eastern Cuba.

''The circumstances surrounding detentions by the USA at Guantanamo Bay show unlawfulness on grounds including the torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees," said the resolution, adopted by the Council's Parliamentary Assembly.

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1. as a nation, we should be ashamed at this, and should seek to

right it.

I really don't recognize this country anymore. :-(

[Nancy Waterman]

2. That seems quite a signficant development

and it is in the Boston Globe. Let us see if it is covered anywhere else.

[Moderator]

3. Not LBN...locking