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Fresh Torture Claims Arise at Guantanamo

Posted on Jan 11, 2006

BBC: Fresh claims of torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay have been published by Amnesty International to mark the US detention centre’s fourth anniversary.

The London-based human rights group said 500 detainees continued to be held without charge or trial and repeated its call for the centre to be shut. | story

Also, the U.S. general at the center of the detainee abuse scandal refuses to answer questions in a court-martial. | story

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