[Documents/Docheader.htm]Serious abuse of the persons held in Guantanamo Bay
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22 June 2004Written question No 447 to the Committee of Ministers
presented by Mr Masson
Mr Jean-Louis Masson wishes to draw the attention of the Committee of Ministers to the maltreatment of certain nationals of Council of Europe member states at the hands of the United States.
In particular, this involves the serious abuse of the persons being held outside the law in the Guantanamo Bay base.
The individuals concerned are not only being subjected to physical and psychological torture, but are also being deprived of all contacts and denied any legal assistance without any legal justification whatsoever.
Mr Jean-Louis Masson,
To ask the Committee of Ministers whether it does not believe that it would be appropriate to take much more vigorous and much firmer action in respect of the United States and, in particular, to suspend the United States’ observer status with the Council of Europe.
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MASSON Jean-Louis, France, EDG
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