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Euro MP Requests Top EU Official to Press the US so it Closes the Guantanamo Prison
HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 13 (acn) Willy Meyer, Spanish Euro MP for Izquierda Unida (IU), requested a top official of the European Union (EU) on Thursday to press Washington so it closes the high
security prison in Guantanamo.

Cuban News Agency

 

Meyer made the request to Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and demanded the restitution to the Caribbean island of the territory occupied since 1898 –against the will of the Cuban people the government-, in which the military enclave is located.


The text, published by the www.willymeyer.es Web site, refers to the decade when that penitentiary was created, a prison especially built at the US Naval Base in the bay of the same name, in the southeastern region of the Caribbean country.


In addition, Meyer described that center of illegal detention as blight for humanity and the greatest exponent of international impunity.


In spite of the fact that US President Barack Obama promised at the beginning of this term of office (January, 2009) to close that prison and transfer prisoners to US territory to be tried by courts, there are still 171 people in that prison of torture, he warned.


In the opinion of the Spanish Euro MP, the policy the existence of this center is based on “responds to terror with terror, to crime with more crime; it’s an unacceptable policy that ignores the principles of international legislation and human rights.”


 

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