Protesters Demand Closure of Guantánamo Prison on 21st Anniversary
HAVANA TIMES – In Washington, D.C., protesters gathered outside the White House Wednesday to call on President Biden to close the prison at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits and black hoods over their heads, marking the 21st anniversary of the reopening of the notorious prison to house hundreds of Muslim men and boys who were captured overseas and handed over to the US. Thirty-five men remain imprisoned today at the GITMO facility located on occupied Cuban territory.
In an open letter to President Biden, the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights and over 150 other groups wrote, “The Guantánamo detention facility was designed specifically to evade legal constraints, and Bush administration officials incubated torture there. … Guantánamo continues to cause escalating and profound damage to the aging and increasingly ill men still detained indefinitely there, most without charge and none having received a fair trial.”
I wonder when they ever demanded the freedom of the political prisoners in Cuba?