The horrifying images from Abu Ghraib as well as the images from Guantanamo had a profound impact.

It also discussed the administration of justice, particularly in connection with some 700 detainees being held at Guantanamo.

In October 2003, the HRI issued an amicus curiae brief on behalf of detainees in Guantanamo Bay before the US Supreme Court.

Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo were merely the tip of an iceberg, and the United States should repent its grave violations of human rights.

The Supreme Court held by majority that US law confers upon Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their detention by means of habeas corpus.

It should invite a commission of inquiry to visit Guantanamo Bay so that the international community could see what was happening and take adequate measures.

In my country, it was we had been looking at pictures of British soldiers beating up young Iraqis we've got Abu Ghraib we've got Guantanamo Bay.

The Conference condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran in the Guantanamo detention camp, which the US Administration has recognized has been perpetrated by American soldiers and investigators.

There is a zone there, around Guantanamo Bay, where a treaty gives the United States administrative responsibility for a piece of land that's about twice the size of Manhattan.

Mr. Cumberbach Miguén (Cuba) recalled that the media often played an important role by disclosing to the whole world information that had been kept secret, as had been the case when the United States had established a naval base illegally at Guantanamo Bay.

It is all the more cynical as the country being accused internationally of practising torture is neither Venezuela nor Cuba, but precisely the United States, which has made that degrading treatment a common practice in Afghanistan, Iraq and the illegally occupied naval base at Guantanamo.

However, on 11 May a public demonstration of more than 1,000 people was begun in Jalalabad (Nangarhar province) to protest against the arrest by the coalition forces of three Afghans and the alleged desecration of the Holy Quran at the United States detention centre in Guantanamo.

He was still awaiting an answer to the request he had made jointly with the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to visit the naval base of the United States of America at Guantanamo Bay.

Another unspoken consideration may have been at work in the Guantanamo Bay case, which has garnered considerable international attention. In recent years, a majority of the Justices of the Supreme Court have articulated a multilateralist view of American law that stands in marked contrast to the unilateralism of the Bush Administration.

In the same year the ACSJC communicated with Justice Louis Joinet, Chairman of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, concerning the indefinite detention of two Australians at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the denial of rights under the Third Geneva Convention and the Covenant of Civil and Political Rights.

Cheney s influence resulted in the bloody disaster of Iraq, the moral humiliation of Guantanamo, water boarding and extraordinary rendition, the despair of friends and the contempt of critics, a full dress parade of double standards around the globe. Mean spirited and partisan, Dick Cheney was one of America s most powerful vice presidents.

I do not mean to suggest that the Justices decided the Guantanamo Bay case as they did so that they would be toasted at their international cocktail parties. I contend that their concern for world opinion if that concern played the role I am suggesting it did was for their country, not for themselves.

With respect to the questions posed by the representative of the Netherlands on behalf of the European Union and by the representative of Yemen, concerning the requests to visit the Guantanamo naval base which had not yet led to results, her Government hoped very soon to be able to discuss issues relating to the detainees with the Special Rapporteurs.

To be sure, the Brown precedent is not entirely analogous, for there the Supreme Court gave weight to foreign policy considerations in just the way that the federal executive had urged. In the Guantanamo Bay case, by contrast, the Bush Administration argued that a ruling for the detainees would undermine the war effort by diverting manpower and material from the battlefield to the courtroom.

I believe American abuses of human rights and the canons of civilized peoples that have come to light in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, and the more horrendous abuses that almost surely will come to light later, are not merely the act of aberrant individuals. They are the result of a Bush administration that has trampled on human rights and international law, including the Geneva conventions, and tried to undermine basic democratic protections, ever since it took office.

In less than four years, President Bush and his advisers have cast aside much of the longstanding bipartisan consensus under which the United States works through and with multilateral institutions like the United Nations. Alarmed by this dramatic volte face, the majority Justices in the Guantanamo Bay case may be trying to send assurances to the rest of the world that President Bush does not speak for all Americans, not even the ones who put him in office in the first place.