In adopting a joint resolution by a large majority on the situation of prisoners at Guantánamo, MEPs reiterated their call on the US Administration to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and insists that every prisoner should be treated in accordance with international humanitarian law and, if charged, tried without delay in a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial court of law or international tribunal. MEPs condemn all forms of torture and ill-treatment and reiterates the need to comply with international law. MEPs also point out that the suicides on 10 June 2006 of three detainees at Guantanamo Bay have raised further international concern about the detention facilities.
Parliament calls on the US authorities to implement the UNCAT recommendations and to ensure the non-use of "special interrogation techniques", including methods involving sexual humiliation, "water boarding", "short shackling" and using dogs to induce fear, that constitute torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
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Parliament calls on the US authorities to implement the UNCAT recommendations and to ensure the non-use of "special interrogation techniques", including methods involving sexual humiliation, "water boarding", "short shackling" and using dogs to induce fear, that constitute torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
(For clarity, please click the U.S. Department of Defense photo and then continue ...)