Pentagon concludes detainees treated humanely

(CNN) — A new Defense Department report concludes that the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, treats detainees humanely, according to a Defense official.
The conclusion comes in a Pentagon report prepared for President Barack Obama, who has ordered the closing of the facility within a year. The Defense Department review also recommends that high value and violent detainees be allowed to pray and have recreation time in groups of three, the official said.
Several detainees have claimed in court documents that they were tortured and subjected to inhumane treatment in the military prison at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay. Most of the complaints concern the early years of the facility, after then-President George W. Bush determined that “minimum standards for humane treatment” spelled out in the Geneva Conventions “did not apply to al Qaeda or Taliban detainees,” according to a Senate Armed Services Committee report issued in December.