Discourse at UN's top rights body today includes Cuba accusing U.S. of running "concentration camps"

On September 16, 2014 the Cuban Ambassador Anayansi Rodriguez Camejo claimed that the United States is "torturing" people in "concentration camps."

Camejo, speaking at the UN Human Rights Council, said: "The US, aided and abetted by some EU allies, holds records for political assassinations and extrajudicial executions including with unmanned vehicles. They hold record for abductions, torture in concentration camps such as the illegal base in Guantanamo Bay and also for prisons and arbitrary and racist implementation of the death penalty and crimes against civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan... "

After she finished the Council's President, Baudelaire Ndong Ella of Gabon, said: "Thank you, Ambassador."

The Obama administration has said "the Human Rights Council is a critical venue for addressing some of the most persistent threats to human rights around the world" (June 10, 2014) and that "U.S. leadership helped to keep the Council at the forefront of international efforts to promote and protect human rights" (June 30, 2014).