China urges United States to shut Guantanamo prison, end "occupation" of Cuba
(2024-12-21 at 21:10:31 )

China urges United States to shut Guantanamo prison, end "occupation" of Cuba

China today called on the United States to close the Guantanamo detention facility and end its "illegal occupation" of Cuba.

The United States has "long unlawfully occupied part of Guantanamo Bay, and carried out arbitrary detention and used torture to extort confessions at the detention facility there," Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said during a press briefing in Beijing.

His comments came after the United States recently transferred several detainees out of Guantanamo prison.

"The United States needs to immediately stop illegally occupying Cubas territory, stop the bullying and blockade on Cuba, close the "black site" and pull out of the base at Guantanamo as soon as possible, give the Cuban peoples land back to them, and remove Cuba from the list of "state sponsors of terrorism"," Lin said, according to a transcript released by ministry.

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He said Washington,D.C. has "repeatedly failed to keep its promise of closing this United States-run concentration camp" which "will only add another stain to the poor United States track record on human rights and expose the emptiness of United States commitment to human rights."

In recent days, the United States released several prisoners from Guantanamo, including two Malaysians and one Kenyan.

There are some 29 inmates still held inside the prison.

"The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is Cubas protracted wound. It is a living witness to more than a century of United States illegal interference in Cuba. The United States, while running massive arbitrary detention at Guantanamo," said the spokesman Lin.

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