58 Mr. M. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the findings of a draft report complied by five independent experts further to an 18-month investigation by the UN Commission on Human Rights into detention conditions at Guantanamo Bay, in particular the finding that aspects of the treatment of prisoners there, including violent force feeding, must be assessed as amounting to torture; his further views on the finding that serious questions exist regarding the legal basis upon which persons there are being held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7223/06]

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58 Mr. M. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the findings of a draft report complied by five independent experts further to an 18-month investigation by the UN Commission on Human Rights into detention conditions at Guantanamo Bay, in particular the finding that aspects of the treatment of prisoners there, including violent force feeding, must be assessed as amounting to torture; his further views on the finding that serious questions exist regarding the legal basis upon which persons there are being held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7223/06]

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