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The Plight of Guantanamo’s Cleared Detainees in A Powerful New Video
The Guardian released this creative animated video today based on the testimony of Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared for transfer but are still held at the detention facility.
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Former Child Soldier Thanks Amnesty Members After Being Released From Guantánamo
Perhaps the one positive thing coming out of all [this] is to know there are so many good people in the world, like the members of Amnesty International, willing to…
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Amnesty International Responds to the Transfer of Two Men from Guantanamo to Algeria
In response to the news that two detainees had been transferred from U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, the director of Amnesty International USA's Security & Human Rights Program…
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4,000 Days in Limbo at Guantanamo
Imagine this. In the middle of the night, foreign soldiers burst in. You are taken to a military base. You are still in a cell in that naval base more…
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Our Top 5 Recommendations for the U.S.-Yemen Talks
President Obama will meet with Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi tomorrow. Here are five of our top recommendations for their agenda.
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Guantanamo Bay: When Will We Wake Up?
The reality is that most detainees in Guantanamo Bay detention facility have never been charged, and none fairly tried. Yet they are all still being punished.
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‘I am fallen into darkness.’ The case of Obaidullah, Guantánamo detainee now in his 12th year without trial
For over a decade, Obaidullah has been incarcerated without trial some 8,000 miles from his home and family in Afghanistan. His daughter, born two days before he was taken into…
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Testimony before the U.S. Senate on July 24, 2013: Closing Guantanamo: The National Security, Fiscal, and Human Rights Implications
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights, and human rights. Statement on behalf of Amnesty International USA by Zeke Johnson, Director of the Security& Human Rights…
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‘The Agency That Shall Remain Nameless’: Things Left Unsaid at Guantanamo
Information about the proceedings is rigorously protected. Observers pass through an airport-style search, and can carry nothing but a pen and paper into the court; we are not allowed to…
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Good News: U.K. Prime Minister Cameron Raises Shaker Aamer With President Obama
The U.K. Government must insist that Congress and the U.S. administration, as a matter of urgency, work together to resolve the detention of Shaker Aamer and all other detainees held…
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Can You Make 1 Phone Call Before 5pm EST Today to Help Close Guantanamo?
The NDAA is back in the House of Representatives this week and the bad Guantanamo provisions are in it again. Pick up the phone and tell your Representative to support…
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Guantanamo Detainee Seeks Victim Status in Poland Investigation into CIA Prison
A Yemeni man held by the U.S. military has become the third person to seek victim status in an ongoing investigation by the Polish Prosecutor’s Office into Poland's involvement in…