Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.
The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on condition of anonymity.
"They are no longer trying to duck this, and have respected their obligation to inform the UN," the Committee member told AFP.
"They they will have to explain themselves (to the Committee). Nothing should be kept in the dark."
UN sources said it was the first time the world body has received such a frank statement on torture from US authorities.
The Committee, which monitors respect for the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, is gathering information from the US ahead of hearings in May 2006.
(AFP)
Sunday, June 26, 2005
US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo and Iraq, Afghanistan: UN source
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Somone should inform the President and vice President about the torture which they firmly have denied since prisoners were held in Gitmo,they also should be brought up on charges by the U.S.senate for being responsible for allowing this process of torture from day one,maybe there will be something there for impeachment. T.A.
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