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POPSUN: Torture in Iraq 'worse' now than it was under Saddam Also: Nowak, and the four other UN human rights experts who work with him, rejected denials by the US that people were tortured at Guantánamo in the past. The interrogation methods of prisoners authorized by US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld constituted torture and the US administration was wrong to say there were no cases of torture committed at Guantánamo, told reporters. Asked about US allegations over the report's credibility since it was based on second-hand information, Mr. Nowak said this was not the case and the information gathered was based on first-hand information. Though they did not visit the centre, the rapporteurs interviewed former detainees, lawyers acting on behalf of detainees and US Government officials as well as consulting public records.
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