Britian Slams U.S. over Guantanamo

June 28, 2004 D. H. McKee

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Britain’s top legal officer has slammed as “unacceptable” proposed U.S. military trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees in a speech reviving a rare rift between the closest allies in the global anti-terror war.

Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith’s comments, released on Friday ahead of delivery in a speech in Paris, were one of the bluntest statements yet of London’s disquiet over the U.S. handling of terror suspects at the U.S. base in Cuba.

“While we must be flexible and be prepared to countenance some limitation of fundamental rights if properly justified and proportionate, there are certain principles on which there can be no compromise,” he was to say.

“Fair trial is one of those — which is the reason we in the UK have been unable to accept that the US military tribunals … offer sufficient guarantees of a fair trial in accordance with international standards.”

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