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Guantanamo Bay: The American Gulag! A horrific torture chamber! Or maybe not. Reuters--yes, Reuters--has a report from Brussels that counters the anti-American stereotypes:
Inmates at Guantanamo Bay prison are treated better than in Belgian jails, an expert for Europe's biggest security organization said on Monday after a visit to the controversial U.S. detention center.
But Alain Grignard, deputy head of Brussels' federal police
anti-terrorism unit, said that holding people for many years without telling them what would happen to them is in itself "mental torture.". . .
Grignard told a news conference that prisoners' right to practice their religion, food, clothes and medical care were better than in Belgian prisons.
"I know no Belgian prison where each inmate receives its [sic] Muslim kit," Grignard said.
Grignard said that while Guantanamo was not "idyllic," he had noticed dramatic improvements each time he visited the facility over the last two years.
The head of the OSCE lawmakers in the delegation said she was happy with the medical facilities at the camp, adding she believed they had been improved recently.
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