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Chile Group Says Close
Guantanamo
About 420 people from 35
countries are imprisoned in the
US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, without being declared
guilty of any crime at all,
Chilean International Amnesty
(IA) denounced Wednesday.
Detainees, IA added, do not have
access to any independent court,
many of them have no lawyer nor
family visits, and near 200 of
them have gone on hunger strike
in protest of bad conditions.
When convening the seminar
"Terrorism: Humanitarian
Challenge," the organization
described US Naval Station
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as "an
outrage for human rights and a
symbol of injustice" of
Washington's so called war
against terrorism.
Chilean IA demanded that the US
Naval base at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, immediate close and urged
the US to take all detainees to
a court of justice, or on the
contrary immediately release
them.
Since September 11, 2001 the
United States and its allies
have "kidnapped people and
imprisoned them in secret, moved
them from one country to another
and subjected them to torture
and mistreatment in detainee
camps, like Guantanamo or other
secret places," IA expressed.
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