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HAVANA, April 17 (UPI) -- Cuba Saturday asked the European Union countries and others to demand an investigation of how the United States treats Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo.
Cuba asked the U.N. Human Rights Commission, in a resolution patterned after a similar one passed by the European Parliament, for a debate on the legality of the detention at the U.S. naval base of several hundred members of the Taliban captured in Afghanistan, according to the Cuban state-controlled news service AIN, monitored by the BBC.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said, "We should submit to the Human Rights Commission the problem regarding the detention conditions of the prisoners that are today in the base, who have been there for years, without any (having) been accused, without being entitled to having a defense lawyer, without any idea of when they will be taken to trial."
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing two appeals Tuesday that question whether hundreds of the prisoners are being detained lawfully. It will be the first time the highest court will review the detentions, CNN reported.
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