UN investigator finds cruel treatment of detainees at Guantanamo, calls for closure and redress.
The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, has said that the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.” She praised the Biden administration for leading by example by opening up Guantanamo and “being prepared to address the hardest human rights issues,” and urged other countries that have barred U.N. access to detention facilities to follow suit. She also made a long series of recommendations and said the prison at Guantanamo Bay should be immediately closed, a goal of the Biden administration.