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| European Union Guantanamo Delegation Calls For Flexible Prison Conditions
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 4-December-2014
11:53:22 AM |
| A delegation of five European officials recommended on Wednesday that inmates cleared for release from the US military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be jailed under more flexible conditions, an aide said.
Invited by the United States, the delegation's informal visit was meant to help give Europe ideas on how it can help the United States shut down the controversial jail once and for all.
The five European Parliament members, led by French former Justice Minister Rachida Dati, visited Guantanamo detention camps on Tuesday.
Of the 142 inmates remaining, 73 have been cleared for release- some of them years ago during the administration of President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush- but they remain incarcerated without charges or trial.
In an interview with AFP in Washington, Dati stressed that some of the detainees' "detention conditions were extremely radical considering the totally minor evidence against them."
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The delegation, which met with and made the proposal to the US State Department and the Organization of American States' human rights commission, proposed that the 73 men be held in a separate camp, "to send a positive signal to third-party countries" that might receive them, Philip Kyle, Dati's parliamentary attache, told AFP.
The inmates are housed in two areas, Camp 5 and Camp 6, with the exception of a handful of "high value" prisoners- such as those accused of involvement in the September 11 attacks- who live in Camp 7.
Under the proposal, the prisoners slated for release would be regrouped in a camp with more flexible conditions in the same manner as Chinese Muslim minority Uighurs, who lived in semi-freedom in Camp Iguana, a small compound within the complex, before their release
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