Cuba has charged the United States with running a concentration camp at the Guantanamo base on the eastern tip of the island.

This is the Cuban government's first attack on the use of the facility to hold men Washington has seized in its "war on terror".

"In the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo naval base, hundreds of foreign prisoners are subjected to indescribable abuses," said a statement passed by parliament earlier this week and broadcast by the state-run media in Havana on Friday.

Communist-run Cuba's National Assembly said prisoners were isolated and denied the right to communicate with their families or to prepare an adequate defence.

"Some of the few freed have spoken of the horrors of this concentration camp," said the statement, appealing to lawmakers throughout the Americas to halt US human rights violations.

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