I am presently in the process of investigating as far as I can these allegations ... If I come to the conclusion that it is a serious and well-founded allegation, then I will officially submit it to attention of the Chinese government.
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It is totally unacceptable, even in the fight against terrorism, that a highly democratic country such as the United States of America is keeping secret places of detention.Manfred Nowak
Since they are secret, I don't know where they are. ... Whether this is in Europe or in North Africa or in, I don't know where, in Afghanistan, that of course I don't know.
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in general, the way people are treated in prisons after they are convicted and in particular, those sentenced to death.
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Every secret place of detention is usually a higher risk for ill treatment, that the danger of secrecy.
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Fact-finding on the spot has to include interviews with detainees. What's the sense of going to a detention facility and doing fact-finding when you can't speak to the detainees It's just nonsense.
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The only condition that we did not accept was that we would have no access to detainees and I am very confident that since we accepted the invitation in the spirit of compromise, the United States will compromise,
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