The UN announced today that a human rights expert is to visit a US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in the coming days, for the first time after two decades of requests.
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ni Aohlein will make a “technical visit” from February 6, the UN said in a statement.
From February 6 to 14, an Irish expert commissioned by the Human Rights Council will travel to Washington and then to a pre-trial detention center at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay.
At the end of the visit, the expert will issue a conclusion with conclusions and recommendations.
Independent United Nations human rights experts have been trying to gain access to this military prison in southeastern Cuba since it was opened in 2002 for prisoners of the “war on terror” that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The prison in question, which has previously been the target of allegations of illegal detention, human rights violations and torture, once held about 800 prisoners, and today only about 40 remain.
Source: APE-MPE, AFP.
Source: Kathimerini
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