Re: US ‘stalling UN Guantanamo visit’
yes, the RC has already said torture is taking place… the UN wants to confirm its own evidence
Red Cross: Guantanamo Tactics ‘Tantamount to Torture’
WASHINGTON - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has accused the U.S. military of using tactics “tantamount to torture” on prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
An ICRC inspection team that spent most of June at Guantanamo Bay reported the use of psychological and sometimes physical coercion on the prisoners, the newspaper said.
… The Times said the Red Cross investigators had found a system devised to break the will of prisoners through “humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes, use of forced positions.”
“The construction of such a system, whose stated purpose is the production of intelligence, cannot be considered other than an intentional system of cruel, unusual and degrading treatment and a form of torture,” the Times quoted the report as saying.