U.S. under fire for treatment of detainees: critics abroad cite inhumane conditions, ambiguous legal status of prisoners. (Nation).(Afghanistan prisoners of war)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: February 1, 2002| Author: Patterson, Margot | Copyright information

Criticism continues to grow of the U.S. treatment of captured fighters from Afghanistan who are being held at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States is calling the captives "detainees" or "unlawful combatants," but the European Union, the U.N. secretary general and the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson have joined such human rights organizations as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch in saying the detainees should be regarded ...

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