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Guantanamo Hunger Strike Passes 60 Days; Protest Actions to Demand End to Indefinite Detention; Closure of Prison
What: Rallies, Protests, Visual Photo-ops
Where: Across U.S.
When: April 11, 2013
Across the U.S. on Thursday, street protests will support prisoners detained at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo who are engaged in a large-scale hunger strike, which began in early February. Some are now in critical condition.
“The vast majority of the 166 men have been held for more than eleven years without any charge or fair trial, with no end to their detention in sight. The Obama administration must take swift measures to humanely address the immediate causes of the hunger strike and fulfill its promise to close the Guantanamo” says a statement from World Can’t Wait and Witness Against Torture.
The prisoners’ action, described by a U.S. military spokesman as an “orchestrated event intended to garner media attention,” has begun to do “just that, and we intend to magnify their voices,” say the protesters. The Boston Globe urged President Obama to close the prison because keeping Guantanamo open is “a challenge to our reputation around the world.” The New York Times said the prisoners’ action is “exposing the lawlessness of the system that marooned them there,” describing the indefinite detention of men long cleared for release as the “essence of what has been wrong with Guantánamo from the start.”
Protesters demand that action be taken by the U.S. government in time to save the lives of the prisoners, with the aim of closing the prison. In Chicago and San Francisco, nine protesters will wear orange jumpsuits to represent the nine men who have already died in Guantanamo waiting for justice. At noon, protesters will gather at the White House to focus on the president’s 2009 promise to close Guantanamo.
They don't fall under the Geneva Convention or American constitutional protection.
Just keep doing what obama's doing.....drone them.
That view is an affront to what America is supposed t believe in. We are supposed to believe in the rule of law and certain unalienable principles. Gitmo is a disgrace to our core principles.
Yes they can be held indefinitely, but lets be honest here, should they? Clearly those who are guilty of being terrorists should be, but what if your there and you didnt do anything?
And before anyone gets all over the fact that I argued for its existance during Bush, that was during a time of "war", and I never argued for people to be held there without trial, and I never supported indefinate holdings.
That view is an affront to what America is supposed t believe in. We are supposed to believe in the rule of law and certain unalienable principles. Gitmo is a disgrace to our core principles.
I couldn't have said it better.
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