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The Archbishop of Cantebury, no less. Who cares.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has launched a scathing attack on Guantanamo Bay, condemning the US prison camp as an "extraordinary legal anomaly".
Speaking during an eight-day visit to Sudan, Dr Williams said yesterday that detaining people indefinitely when they had not been convicted, and denying them proper legal rights, set a dangerous precedent.
He said that the camp in Cuba had created a "new category of custody", in which detainees were prevented from gaining "the sort of legal access that we would probably assume to be important".
The archbishop said: "Any message given, that any state can just over-ride some of the basic habeas corpus-type provisions, is going to be very welcome to tyrants elsewhere in the world, now and in the future.
"What, in 10 years' time, are people going to be able to say about a system that tolerates this?"
His criticism in an interview with Sir David Frost for the BBC follows that of other Anglican leaders, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the former archbishop of Cape Town, and the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.
Human rights campaigners have accused the United States of using torture at the camp, a charge denied by the Pentagon.