CAIRO, May 14, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – In a new damning report, Amnesty International accused the Bush administration of disregarding basic human rights and international legal obligation in its so-called war on terror.

It also underlined that rights violations are the inevitable result of “hypocrisy” and “over-arching war mentality” which characterize Washington’s war, according to Amnesty’s Web site.

The report, Guantanamo and beyond: The continuing pursuit of unchecked executive power, further accused the US administration of “seeking to block judicial review” of Guantanamo detainees.

It stressed that nearly a year since the States Supreme Court ruled that US courts have the jurisdiction to consider appeals from Guantanamo detainees, “not a single detainee has had the lawfulness of his detention judicially reviewed”.

Amnesty asked the Bush administration to bring Guantanamo and any other detention camp it is operating outside the country “into full compliance with international law and standards” or “close them down”.