notorious?

Writes Sean O'Neill in The Times of London:

'An inmate of Guantanamo Bay who spends 22 hours each day in an isolation cell is fighting for the right to stay in the notorious internment camp.

Ahmed Belbacha fears that he will be tortured or killed if the United States goes ahead with plans to return him to his native Algeria.'

If Mr Belbacha feels safer at Gitmo than at home, wouldn't it have been more accurate for Mr O'Neill to characterize Algeria as notorious?