UN Human Rights Monitor finally visits Guantanamo, calls it “Cruel and Inhuman”

14 June 2023 – After more than 20 years, the American authorities have finally given a human rights monitor unfettered access to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism has issued a damning report on the facility, calling it “cruel and inhuman” and demanding that America apologise.

You can read the full report here.

Or read an in depth summary by Andy Worthington, author of the Guantanamo Files and founder of Close Guantanamo:

After First Ever Guantánamo Visit, UN Rapporteur Finds Dehumanized, Traumatized Men Subjected to Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment That May Rise to the Level of Torture

The UN report was also covered in The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/07/guantanamo-bay-un-visit-torture-treatment

And the report was given surprisingly strong coverage on NBC News in the States. Five minutes, which in TV news terms is an eternity: