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GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) -- United Nations human rights investigators said on Thursday that legislation proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush for tough interrogations of foreign terrorism suspects would breach the Geneva Conventions.
In a joint statement to the U.N. Human Rights Council, meeting in Geneva, the five independent envoys also said that Washington's recent admission of secret detention centres abroad pointed to "very serious human rights violations in relation to the hunt for alleged terrorists".
The investigators called again for the United States to close down the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where hundreds of foreign terrorism suspects are being held, alleging that violations including torture and religious discrimination continued to occur.
"...the Government has not only taken no step to close Guantanamo, but it has recently proposed draft legislation to the Congress which is in breach with United States' human rights obligations ... and with the requirements of article 3 of the Geneva Conventions," the statement said.
A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday endorsed Bush's bill for tough interrogations and trials of foreign terrorism suspects, but the measure has still to be debated in the full House and Senate.
The statement was read out by Leila Zerrougui, the Algerian chairwoman of the U.N. working group on arbitrary detention.
She is one of the five investigators who have tried since June 2004 to visit Guantanamo detainees. Washington has said it would allow some of them to go but not to see prisoners privately, a key demand of the investigators.
In reply, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva Warren Tichenor said he regretted the decision of the five not to make the visit and accused them of basing their report on "second- and third-hand allegations."
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