Powell denies Guantanamo beating claims :: 13/03/2004
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he does not believe accusations by a recently freed British inmate of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp that he has been treated in an inhuman fashion.
Jamal al Harith, the first of five Britons to go free, said animals in the prison camp are given better treatment than inmates.But Mr Powell denies that the detainees have been treated badly.
Mr al Harith, who was held for two years without charge, claims he was beaten.
"I think that unlikely," said Mr Powell."We don't abuse people who are in our care. I think we have discharged all of our obligations under the Geneva Convention to treat people in our custody, our detainees, in a very humanitarian way."
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