Guantanamo: UN criticises US 23.01.2012 Guantanamo: UN criticises US Prisoners held for years without rights, without contacting their families, without the right to a lawyer, to due process, being tortured, deprived of sleep, being insulted, held in arbitrary detention without formal accusation or right to defence. Is this some tinpot dictatorship? Why no, it is Guantanamo Bay, run by who else? The US of A. United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has hit out at the United States of America today over the Guantanamo Bay detention facility (or concentration camp), calling it a "clear breach of international law", calling for "accountability for serious violations - including torture and calling on the US Government to charge and prosecute, or else release, the detainees. "It is 10 years since the US Government opened the prison at Guantanamo, and now three years since 22 January 2009, when the President ordered its closure within 12...