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US dismisses Guantanamo 'torture' report

The United States has dismissed as "full of inaccuracies" a United Nations report that says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay amounts to torture.

The UN Committee Against Torture has expressed particular concern at the use of dogs to frighten detainees and shackles.
The UN committee's Fernando Marino Menendez says the indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay amounts to torture and this leaves only one solution.
"We told them that Guantanamo should be closed definitively," he said.
"We indicated that some interrogation techniques being used were prohibited by the Convention Against Torture and we gave concrete examples.
"We also indicated that the prohibition of cruel, degrading and human punishment applied to any activity on foreign territory and not only within the United States. We also indicated that secret prisons were banned by the convention."