UN rights chief says US must close Guantanamo

Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, says “the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained — indefinitely — in clear breach of international law.”
Obama pledged to shutter the US Naval Base prison in Cuba in his annual address to Congress last year.
Pillay said Monday — ahead of Obama’s next annual speech Tuesday — that she is deeply disappointed the US government “has instead entrenched a system of arbitrary detention.”
Pillay said she also is “disturbed at the failure to ensure accountability for serious human rights violations, including torture, that took place.”