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Fri 01 Jan 2010US rights abuses are Europe's problem too
OPINION:Guantánamo Bay symbolises a system of detention made possible only by the help of other states, including Ireland, writes COLM O'GORMAN
A YEAR ago this week, within 48 hours of taking office, Barack Obama announced that Guantánamo Bay detention centre would close within 12 months and that the CIA’s network of secret prisons would be dismantled. Today, 198 prisoners remain in Guantánamo. The CIA is still allowed to carry out “rendition operations”, or kidnapping to be more accurate. It can still detain people in secret or hand them over to another country for interrogation. Dozens of people known to have been held in secret CIA prisons are still missing.
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