150 Worldwide Organizations Name on Biden to Shut Guantánamo on twenty first Anniversary
On the twenty first anniversary of the primary orange-jumpsuit clad “illegal enemy combatants” arriving blindfolded and shackled to the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, greater than 150 worldwide human rights organizations are urging President Joe Biden to lastly shutter the jail. The letter, coordinated by the Middle for Victims of Torture, or CVT, and the Middle for Constitutional Rights, requires a closure to the present jail, an finish to the indefinite navy detention of the lads dwelling there, and a pledge to by no means once more use the naval base for “illegal mass detention.”
“It’s gone time for each a sea change in america’ strategy to nationwide and human safety, and a significant reckoning with the total scope of injury that the post-9/11 strategy has brought on,” the letter says.
Following a gradual trickle of transfers out of the ability underneath the Biden administration, 35 males stay imprisoned at the moment. Over the past twenty years, 779 men and boys handed by way of the catastrophic jail. Of those that stay there at the moment, 20 are eligible for switch out of indefinite detention; three are awaiting judgment from six totally different authorities businesses, often called the Periodic Assessment Board; three extra have been convicted; and 9 are concerned in pre-trial hearings within the flawed navy fee system. The case towards accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators is ongoing and has not but reached trial.
Within the post-9/11 period, torture with impunity at CIA black websites, the failed invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, drone strikes, botched raids throughout a worldwide battlefield, home surveillance of Muslims, and the incalculable lack of civilian life within the Center East have outlined America’s quest for nationwide safety. However Guantánamo Bay, and its earlier iteration as a detention facility for Haitian refugees within the ’90s, “is the enduring instance of the abandonment of the rule of legislation,” the letter argues.
“The world is aware of detainees had been tortured, [as well as] the heinous strategies, names of those that permitted and took part, and that videotapes of torture had been intentionally destroyed; but not a single individual has been held accountable,” Yumna Rizvi, coverage analyst for CVT, instructed The Intercept. “The truth that all these complicit stay free, [and that] some even describe what they did with out worry of prosecution, is astounding. The U.S. has misplaced its credibility for human rights, justice, and accountability.”
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Renewed strain and requires the jail to lastly be closed are solely the start of ending the injustice, argues CAGE’s Mansoor Adayfi. “We have to see compensation, acknowledgement, and an apology for what occurred to us,” Adayfi, a former Guantánamo prisoner, instructed The Intercept. “That is a part of closing Guantánamo.”