The official Twitter account of the solidarity organization, @FidelidadACuba, quoted the recent report from United Nations Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ni Aolain, which “found that the prisoners are subjected to vile and inhumane treatment,” it said.

Last Monday, the UN high official presented the conclusions of the technical visit paid to that occupied enclave in eastern Cuba, and charged that after 20 years, all 30 prisoners who are still locked up there receive a “cruel, inhumane and degrading” treatment.

I noted that after two decades of detention, “the suffering of the detainees is profound and continuous,” she remarked.

The Irish lawyer and academic explained that at her meetings with the detainees, she could perceive the irreparable damage caused by the systematic practices of torture and arbitrary detention.

She added that their experiences of torture coexist with them, and there is no conclusive end in sight in the short term.

Ni Aolain stressed that the US Government must urgently adopt a judicial decision, offer an apology and ensure that this case does not happen again.

She pointed out that interrogations and systematic torture in several places, including the Guantanamo Bay prison, became the “most serious obstacle” to redeeming the rights of the September 11 victims.

The European specialist’s report focused on structural deficiencies, systematic arbitrariness, training, operating procedures and issues such as medical care and advice to justice.

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