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BBC NEWS | Americas | Guantanamo 'leaves mental scars':

"Detainees in US custody at Guantanamo Bay risk developing 'irreversible psychiatric symptoms', UN human rights investigators have warned.
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As a result, the investigators said, the US government risked doing more harm than good in the fight against global terror by failing to uphold basic legal rights.

Many of the 540 or so inmates at Guantanamo have been held without charge and access to lawyers since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan."