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UN welcomes Obama Guantanamo plan, but calls for due process

By REUTERS

FEBRUARY 23, 2016 20:30

Updated: FEBRUARY 23, 2016 20:31

GENEVA - The top UN human rights official welcomed President Barack Obama's plan announced on Tuesday to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, but stressed that no detainee should remain in indefinite custody without charge or trial.

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UNHigh Commissioner for Human Rights, said the US facility in Cuba had been a "serious blot on the human rights record, and reputation, of the United States for the past 14 years."

"All Guantanamo detainees should either be transferred to regular detention centers in the US mainland or other countries where fair trials before civilian courts and due process guarantees can be provided in accordance with international norms and standards," he said in a statement.

"If there is insufficient evidence to charge them with any crime, they must be released to their home country, or to a third country if they risk persecution at home."

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