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See other WORLD WAR III Articles Title: Biden Can Close the Extrajudicial Prison at Guantánamo
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The New York Times
URL Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/29/ ... antanamo-bay-prison-biden.html
Published: May 3, 2023
Author: Editorial Board
Post Date: 2023-05-03 20:16:48 by Charles_Byrd
Keywords: None
Views: 125
Last week, Said bin Brahim bin Umran Bakush was released from detention at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and returned to Algeria, his home country. Suspected of being a low-level fighter for Al Qaeda, at age 52 he was in his 21st year of detention in the prison, had no charges filed against him and stopped speaking to lawyers about five years ago. Mr. Bakush’s release leaves 30 men, of the 780 held there over the years since 2002, still imprisoned at the U.S. naval base whose name has become synonymous with American shame. President Biden said at the outset of his administration that he would seek to have the detention center closed, and he directed the Defense Department to study how best to do so. But at the rate these cases are moving, resolving them could take several more years. Mr. Biden wisely avoided the kind of highly public pledges to close down the prison that President Barack Obama made and could not keep. But to achieve the goal of finally ending the extrajudicial detention of prisoners at Guantánamo — and its disgraceful violations of fundamental human rights and abandonment of the right to due process — requires more of Mr. Biden. Click for Full Text! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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