(Swiss) Government rejects Guantanamo criticism

[struggle4progress]

January 31, 2007 - 10:11 PM

... Details were revealed earlier this week of moves by the Swiss prosecutor's office to obtain information from Guantanamo detainees about terror suspects held in Switzerland ...

The report said that the federal prosecutor's office sent pictures of suspects detained in Switzerland to US authorities, asking them to find out whether detainees held at Guantanamo recognized the suspects ...

The government was taken to task for what was seen as its double standards; criticising the US for violating human rights at the camp, while using the Guantanamo inmates to obtain information for its own ends ...

Dick Marty, the Swiss senator who investigated illegal CIA prisons in Europe for the Council of Europe, .... said the actions by the prosecutor's office helped "legitimise" an "illegal" prison ...

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