Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns joined nearly a hundred organizations in a letter to President Biden asking for the closure of the Guantanamo detention center
The resettlement of Majid Khan from Guantanamo Bay prison to Belize, marks the first time a “high intelligence value” prisoner has been freed.
Join the National Week of Action to Close Guantanamo!
DATES
January 6 – 14
LOCATION
Washington, D.C. and various cities across the United States
(Find a list of locations at http://www.nrcat.org/post-911-detainees/close-guantanamo/january-11-2018)
Organized by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture:
As of early May, it is believed that at least 100 men held at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are participating in a hunger strike; 23 are being force fed. While prisoners at Guantanamo have fasted to protest their detention and/or treatment over the 11 years of the facility’s use, this current strike began in February as a response both to a new, harsher team of guards and to the fact that the imprisonment appears to be open-ended with little hope for release.