Letter signed by “diverse group” of NGOs requires closing Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, which was created after September 11, 2001 assaults however shortly thereafter grew to become a website of “unrelenting human rights violations”.
(Reuters Archive)
More than 150 organisations have despatched a letter to US President Joe Biden urging him to “prioritise closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”
The letter was signed by 159 organisations from the US and different international locations who referred to as themselves a “diverse group of non-governmental organisations” engaged on points together with worldwide human rights, immigrants’ rights, racial justice and combating anti-Muslim discrimination.
“It is long past time for both a sea change in the United States’ approach to national and human security, and a meaningful reckoning with the full scope of damage that the post-9/11 approach has caused,” they wrote within the letter on Wednesday.
“Closing the Guantanamo detention facility, ending indefinite military detention of those held there, and never again using the military base for unlawful mass detention of any group of people are necessary steps towards those ends.”
“We urge you to act without delay, and in a just manner that considers the harm done to the men who have been detained indefinitely without charge or fair trials for two decades,” they added.
Often known as Gitmo, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility was created after September 11, 2001 assaults to carry suspects captured in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
It grew to become the main target of worldwide controversy over alleged violations of the authorized rights of detainees and accusations of torture or abusive therapy of prisoners by US authorities.
Experts appointed by the UN have referred to as Guantanamo Bay “a site of unparalleled notoriety, defined by the systematic use of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment against hundreds of men brought to the site and deprived of their most fundamental rights.”
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‘It destroyed many Muslim lives’
Meanwhile, a digital rally was held on Wednesday to mark 21 years because the opening of the US army jail in Guantanamo Bay.
The digital occasion was attended by many individuals from totally different places, together with activists, attorneys and human rights advocates, who demanded the closure of the infamous jail that the US leased from Cuba in 1903 as a coaling station and naval base.
Among the audio system have been Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty International USA’s Director of Security with Human Rights, Aliya Hana Hussain, Advocacy Program Manager on the Center for Constitutional Rights and Andy Worthington of the Close Guantanamo marketing campaign in addition to different advocates, with Lu Aya, co-founder of The Peace Poets, the moderator.
The members referred to as on the US authorities to shut Guantanamo jail whereas speaking concerning the tales of injustice.
Besides calling for justice, the members marked the twenty first anniversary of Guantanamo by studying poems and singing tribute songs.
Like different audio system, Maha Hilal, an writer and the co-director of Justice for Muslims Collective, referred to as for the closure of Guantanamo as a result of “it has destroyed the lives of so many Muslim men and boys.”
“As we call for the closure of Guantanamo, we call for the abolition of Guantanamo, and an end to Islamophobia,” she mentioned.
The detention camp has held roughly 780 detainees because it was opened, most of them with out cost or trial, with many mentioned to have gone by way of unspeakable horrors.
Currently, 35 detainees stay and 20 of them are eligible for switch.
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