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UN Says Russia Offers Better Prison Access Than U.S.
March 30, 2006
An inmate at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba (file photo) (AFP)
Manfred Nowak said he had received an invitation from Moscow to visit Russian detention centers, including in the breakaway republic of Chechnya.
He contrasted that with a U.S. refusal to provide the UN with unhindered access to detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Nowak said his visit to Chechnya was likely to take place later this year. It would be the first by a UN torture envoy in more than a decade.
(AP, Reuters)