Havana, January 11 (RHC) President Miguel Díaz-Canel denounced the ongoing arbitrariness and abuses committed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, in eastern Cuba, which the international community has repudiated.

The President recalled that "it has been 20 years of scandalous abuses in Cuban territory illegally occupied in Guantanamo Bay by the biggest violators of human rights in the world".

This Tuesday marks two decades since the arrival of the first prisoners at the jail established by the U.S. government at that military base, which Washington maintains on the eastern tip of Cuba despite the constant demands of the island's authorities for their return.

On Monday,  UN human rights experts condemned the abuses committed in that prison.

In a press release, the group of independent rapporteurs of the multilateral organization pointed out that in that prison there are relentless and continuous violations of the fundamental guarantees of the detainees, which constitutes a stain on the government of Washington on issues such as the rule of law.

The rapporteurs rejected the arbitrary detentions without trial and torture or ill-treatment perpetrated at the facility.