Tuesday, May 17, 2005

the U.N. HR resolution against US over gitmo



GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States comfortably defeated a call to the U.N.'s top human rights body on Thursday to launch a probe into alleged violations at Guantanamo Bay.

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights rejected by 22 votes to 8, with 23 abstentions, a resolution brought by Cuba calling for the setting up of a special U.N. investigator for the detention center at a U.S. naval base on its territory.

i am posting this rather late, and long after the event was published. - hence i have no attribution. i'm sure if you WANTed to, you could google it.


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