U.N. Investigators Are Invited to Guantanamo

The United States invited three United Nations human rights investigators, including the one who examines torture allegations, to visit the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in a bid to show that “we have nothing to hide.”

Human rights activists have criticized the U.S. for the indefinite detention of about 505 detainees being held at the prison for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Pentagon said the three would be permitted to observe operations at Guantanamo “and ask questions of the command, staff and U.S. officials who would accompany them.”