Thursday, February 09, 2023

Do the right thing, Joe

For two decades, a determined bunch of human rights activists and lawyers has been pushing to end this travesty of justice, the irrational and extra-legal consequence of our panic after 9/11.

Since Biden came to office, six prisoners have been released. 

Twenty men still held at our Caribbean gulag have been cleared for release -- determined to be no threat to the United States and charged with no crime. 

Eleven men, most of them charged with participating in planning the 9/11 attacks, are stuck in a phony "military commission" process which seems never to advance. Three more men are "forever prisoners" -- not charged, but our government plans to hold them forever. Most of this latter set were tortured while being held by the United States.

Thank you to the dedicated activists of CloseGuantanamo for keeping this struggle for more justice alive.

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