United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR)
Press Statement
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights, composed of 53 states, meets each year for six weeks during March/April in Geneva, Switzerland. More than 3,000 delegates from member and observer states and nongovernmental organizations participate. In June 2004, the UNCHR launched a special investigation into alleged human rights abuses at the U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The following is excerpted from a February 16, 2006, press statement issued by the Chairman Rapporteur of the working group on arbitrary detention, Leila Zerrougui; the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Leandro Despouy; the Special Rapporteur on torture…
