(Wasn't it just last week that Rummy and V.P. Dick they have had Hundreds of "Reporters" and Red Cross visitors?)
Investigators from the United Nations have accused the US of stalling over their repeated requests to visit detainees at Guantanamo Bay.Thursday, 23 June, 2005, 14:21 GMT 15:21 UK
The US is holding hundreds of suspected members of the Taleban and al-Qaeda at the detention facility in Cuba.
The UN said for over a year there had been no response to its requests to check on the condition of detainees.This suggested the US was "not willing to co-operate with the United Nations human rights machinery," the team said. A spokesman for the Pentagon told BBC News he had not heard of the allegations. A response has been promised by the US government.
First-hand testimony"We deeply regret that the government of the United States has still not invited us to visit those persons arrested, detained or tried on grounds of alleged terrorism or other violations in Iraq, Afghanistan, or the Guantanamo Bay naval base," the four UN investigators said in a written statement. They have been asking to visit Guantanamo Bay as part of an investigation into allegations of human rights abuse at the US-run prison.
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