Jan 18, 2012  PARIS: A French judge has requested access to Guantanamo to probe claims by three Frenchmen that they were tortured at the notorious jail which US President Barack Obama once promised to close.

By TRUDY BOND, ROY EIDELSON, BRAD OLSON AND STEPHEN SOLDZ  CounterPunch  Jan 10, 2012

Arrest, Detention and the G20: There is More to Civil Liberties than Freedom From Arrest           Statement by Ombudsman André Marin   December 9, 2010