UN Rights Expert Voices Frustration at United States Over Access to Detained Soldier

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–11 April 2011 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today voiced his deep disappointment and frustration that the United States has not allowed him unmonitored access to a soldier accused of being the source of large amounts of classified material given to the website Wikileaks.

Juan E. Méndez, the Special Rapporteur on Torture, said in a statementto the press that the US has refused to grant him an official visit to…