UK minister to condemn Guantanamo

A Cabinet minister is due to denounce Guantanamo Bay detention centre as a "shocking affront to the principles of democracy", it has emerged. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, is expected to voice the most outspoken criticism of US terror policy yet made by a senior minister.


He will accuse the US of "deliberately seeking to put the detainees beyond the reach of the law in Guantanamo Bay".

He will make the comments in a speech in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday.

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