Britain: Close Guantanamo
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Britain is set to call for the closing of Gitmo. They assert the right to a fair trial is an inalienable right. It is expected this will cause a diplomatic falling out between Britain and the US. This comes after British courts found in February that America’s idea of what constitutes torture does not coincide with civilized nations.
The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, is set to trigger a diplomatic row between Britain and the United States by calling for Guantánamo Bay to close.
The decision by the government’s chief legal adviser to denounce the detention centre in Cuba as ‘unacceptable’ will dismay the Bush administration, which has continually rejected claims that the camp breaches international laws on human rights.
But Goldsmith will tell a global security conference at the Royal United Services Institute this week that the camp at Guantánamo Bay must not continue. ‘It is time, in my view, that it should close.’ An urbane lawyer who eschews the limelight, Goldsmith is not known for shooting from the hip in such unequivocal terms; however, it is clear he has harboured grave doubts for some time over the legality of Guantánamo under international law.
‘There are certain principles on which there can be no compromise,’ Goldsmith will say. ‘Fair trial is one of those - which is the reason we in the UK were unable to accept that the US military tribunals proposed for those detained at Guantánamo Bay offered sufficient guarantees of a fair trial in accordance with international standards.’
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