USA: Ending Guantanamo Bay Detentions [extract from AMR 51/093/2006]

Index Number: AMR 51/097/2006
Date Published: 22 June 2006
Categories: Americas, USA

This is an extract from the document 'USA: Memorandum to the US Government on the report of the UN Committee against Torture and the question of closing Guantánamo' (AI Index: AMR 51/093/2006. In this Amnesty International details its recommendations for an alternative to continued detentions at Guantánamo. In brief, those held in the base should be released unless they are to be charged and tried in accordance with international standards of fair trial. No detainees who are released should be forcibly sent to their country of origin or other countries where they may face serious human rights abuses.