16. February 2007, Swissinfo
Swiss senator Dick Marty says the United States has turned down his request to visit the controversial US prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Marty, who is investigating alleged abuses of detainees on behalf of the Council of Europe, had planned to travel to Guantanamo with Manfred Nowak, the United Nations special rapporteur for torture.
They had wanted to question detainees about reports they were earlier held in secret prisons in Europe.
"The US sent a very short reply saying that they couldn't accept his request to visit and talk to inmates," a spokesman for the Council of Europe in Strasbourg said ...
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