[Online] America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo... It Must Be Closed Now!
Start: 2022-01-30 16:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
This is a virtual event
Sunday, Jan 30, 4:00 pm EST/1:00 pm PST
America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo... It Must Be Closed Now!
An online program with Andy Worthington, Mansoor Adayfi and Shelby Sullivan-Bennis.
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January 2022 marks the 20th year since the Guantanamo torture colony was set up. Joe Biden is the fourth president—two Democrats and two Republicans—to preside over a facility whose torture practices have been, for two decades, an extreme violation of U.S. and international law.
In January 2002, President George W. Bush created the military prison within the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The vast majority of those held there from its beginnings were picked up without any incriminating evidence. Guantanamo prison is a shameful icon of torture, including water boarding, and of indefinite detention without charge or trial. It violates basic human rights -- and has been a tool of U.S. imperialism's "wars without end" in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.
Watch a two-minute message from Andy Worthington, speaking from London, about Sunday's event.