A 14-month investigation into the treatment of the soldier who leaked 250,000 US diplomatic cables has accused the United States of breaking international conventions on torture.
Juan Mendez, who is the most senior United Nations official in charge of investigating torture, particularly focused on an 11-month stint in solitary confinement to which the US soldier was subjected after his arrest in May 2010. During this time he was kept in his cell for 23 hours each day, and was forced to sleep naked.
"The special rapporteur concludes that imposing seriously punitive conditions of detention on someone who has not been found guilty of any crime is a violation of his right to physical and psychological integrity as well as of his presumption of innocence," Mendez writes in his report.
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Juan Mendez, who is the most senior United Nations official in charge of investigating torture, particularly focused on an 11-month stint in solitary confinement to which the US soldier was subjected after his arrest in May 2010. During this time he was kept in his cell for 23 hours each day, and was forced to sleep naked.
"The special rapporteur concludes that imposing seriously punitive conditions of detention on someone who has not been found guilty of any crime is a violation of his right to physical and psychological integrity as well as of his presumption of innocence," Mendez writes in his report.
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