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US prison at Guantanamo condemned after suicides
Human rights groups and politicians have called for the controversial US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to be closed after the suicides of three inmates on Saturday.
Amnesty International urged the US to "end the lawlessness" of its facility, which is holding about 460 people.
"The news that three detainees in Guantanamo have died as a result of apparent suicide is a further tragic reminder that the US must end the lawlessness of the facility," it said in a statement.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, said on Saturday that the detention of the men went against basic rule of law.
"I think it would be to the benefit of our cause and our fight for freedom and against terrorism if the facilities at Guantanamo were closed down," he told CNN television channel.
Harriet Harman, a senior British minister, also questioned the facility's legitimacy.
"If it is perfectly legal and there is nothing going wrong there, why don't they have it in America?" she told the BBC.
'Asymmetric warfare'
The men, two Saudis and one Yemeni national, used nooses made of sheets and clothes to hang themselves.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E20CDC83-5950-47AC-9AC7-79A020B835A3.htm
"The news that three detainees in Guantanamo have died as a result of apparent suicide is a further tragic reminder that the US must end the lawlessness of the facility," it said in a statement.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, said on Saturday that the detention of the men went against basic rule of law.
"I think it would be to the benefit of our cause and our fight for freedom and against terrorism if the facilities at Guantanamo were closed down," he told CNN television channel.
Harriet Harman, a senior British minister, also questioned the facility's legitimacy.
"If it is perfectly legal and there is nothing going wrong there, why don't they have it in America?" she told the BBC.
'Asymmetric warfare'
The men, two Saudis and one Yemeni national, used nooses made of sheets and clothes to hang themselves.
More
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E20CDC83-5950-47AC-9AC7-79A020B835A3.htm
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· US ally admits prison is hampering war on terror
Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington and Hugh Muir
Monday June 12, 2006
The Guardian
The Bush administration stared down a new wave of international condemnation of Guantánamo yesterday, dismissing the suicides by three inmates of the prison camp as a "good PR move" on their part and an "act of asymmetrical warfare".
The deaths of two Saudis and a Yemeni, who used knotted bedsheets to hang themselves in their solitary cells, brought renewed calls from European governments and human rights organisations to bring the 460 inmates to trial, or close down the camp. But Bush administration officials rejected suggestions that the three had killed themselves in despair over their indefinite confinement.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1795445,00.html