U.N. rights chief: U.S. must close Guantanamo

[The Northerner]

(AP) GENEVA - The U.N. human rights chief says the U.S. government must close the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama promised a year ago.

Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, says "the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained — indefinitely — in clear breach of international law."

Obama pledged to shutter the U.S. Naval Base prison in Cuba in his annual address to Congress last year.

Pillay said on Monday — ahead of Obama's next annual speech on Tuesday — that she is deeply disappointed the U.S. government "has instead entrenched a system of arbitrary detention."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57364193/u.n-rights-chief-u.s-must-close-guantanamo/

[white_wolf]

1. Haha silly, U.N.

We are America, we aren't bound by the treaties of lesser nations or common decency. We're number 1! We're number 1! In denying freedom and promoting torture!

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R