Guantanamo an 'affront to democracy'

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A KEY British judicial figure and senior Cabinet minister has denounced Guantanamo Bay as a "shocking affront to democracy" and says nations must not sacrifice values in the fight against terrorism.

Britain's Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, delivering a lecture today at the NSW Supreme Court, questioned the constitutional basis of the US's treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

He said the response to terrorism must be conducted in accordance with fundamental principles of human rights.

Otherwise, he said, the values the west was defending in its response to terrorism were compromised.

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