For those who rightly condemn the lack of due process, brutality, and the inhumane treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, it is essential to also criticize, with the same vigor typically reserved for U.S. and British authorities, the dictators Raúl and Fidel Castro, who are neighbors in the region, for not allowing representatives from the Red Cross to visit Cuban prisoners, whether political or not.
“In May 2007, Cuban authorities verbally informed the ICRC that it was still too soon to consider the organization’s renewed offer made in December 2006 to visit security detainees.”
This is from a country that chairs ‘human rights councils’ at the UN…