Lawmakers from 46 European countries meeting in , France asked the Bush administration on Tuesday “to cease torturing and mistreating detainees” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Europe's 50+-year old human rights body, the  , openly condemned the United States Tuesday for using what it termed "torture", and asked European countries not to cooperate in interrogating Guantanamo detainees. The ICRC has been monitoring conditions for detainees at Guantanamo and over 2,000 other places worldwide since 2002. On November 30, 2004, the  issued a press release stating that their policy is that they will neither confirm or deny a widely-repeated report by the New York Times last November 30 about their findings in Guantanamo.The Times report by Neil A. Lewis reads in part; "The International Committee of the Red Cross has charged in confidential reports to the United States government that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes physical coercion 'tantamount to torture' on prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba."
Lawmakers from 46 European countries meeting in , France asked the Bush administration on Tuesday “to cease torturing and mistreating detainees” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Europe's 50+-year old human rights body, the Council of Europe , openly condemned the United States Tuesday for using what it termed "torture", and asked European countries not to cooperate in interrogating Guantanamo detainees. The ICRC has been monitoring conditions for detainees at Guantanamo and over 2,000 other places worldwide since 2002. On November 30, 2004, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issued a press release stating that their policy is that they will neither confirm or deny a widely-repeated report by the New York Times last November 30 about their findings in Guantanamo.The Times report by Neil A. Lewis reads in part; "The International Committee of the Red Cross has charged in confidential reports to the United States government that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes physical coercion 'tantamount to torture' on prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba."
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Council of Europe
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)