Top UK judge slams Guantanamo

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LONDON, England -- One of Britain's top judges has condemned the U.S. for what he called a "monstrous failure of justice" over its detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

In a speech Tuesday evening in London, Law Lord Johan Steyn told an audience that the U.S. was acting illegally in holding suspects at the U.S. military base without trial and without access to legal representation, Britain's Channel Four News reported.

"The purpose of holding the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay was and is to put them beyond the rule of law, beyond the protection of any courts and at the mercy of victors," he was quoted as saying.
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