'We're calling on the U.S. administration and Congress to work together to find adequate and sustainable solutions to address these issues,' a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
People in orange jumpsuits protest against the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo
GENEVA, April 21 - Inmates who have been held for years in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention facility in Cuba are showing signs of "accelerated ageing", a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. "We're calling on the U.S. administration and Congress to work together to find adequate and sustainable solutions to address these issues," said Patrick Hamilton, the ICRC's head of delegation for the United States and Canada.Hamilton's comments came after a visit to the facility in March following a 20-year hiatus.
He called for detainees to receive adequate mental and physical health care and more frequent family contact.The Guantanamo camp was established by Republican President George W. Bush in 2002 to house foreign terrorism suspects following the 2001 hijacked plane attacks on New York and the Pentagon that killed about 3,000 people.
It came to symbolise the excesses of the U.S. "war on terror" because of harsh interrogation methods that critics have said amounted to torture. There were 40 detainees when President Joe Biden, a Democrat, took office in 2021. The Biden administration has said it wants to close the facility but has not presented a plan for doing so.occurred in February, and 30 prisoners remain.
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