Guantánamo Bay: A decade of damage to human rights

On 11 January 2002, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the first detainees were transferred to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Since then, the detention facility there has made the world's news headlines for the shocking human rights concerns associated with it - including arbitrary detention, secret detention, torture and other ill-treatment, renditions, and unfair trials.

Ten years on more than 150 detainees remain at Guantánamo Bay. The majority are in indefinite detention without charge or trial. Those who have been charged face unfair trial by military commission and some can face the death penalty if convicted. The government claims that even those found not guilty can be returned to indefinite detention. There has been essentially no accountability or redress for the human rights violations to which they and other detainees have been subjected.

Human rights concerns in Guantánamo Bay remain an unfinished story. How long before the US government closes the book on Guantánamo and meets its human rights obligations?

Sign the petition here: http://bit.ly/endguantanamo! We will deliver it to President Obama before his 2012 State of the Union address on 24 January.

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[TheDosierboy209]

*fucking

[TheDosierboy209]

Dumb ass it wasn't Obama it was ducking George bush

[QuanPete]

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AT

GITMO NOW!!!!!!

QP

[QuanPete]

So F K G SHAMEFUL Obama!

Can't believe you - F Kd Us Over, American Citizens w yr signing of NDAA, You may Not use it Yourself, but you gave SOMEONE ELSE THE RIGHT TO USE NDAA, AGAINST US !! YouSickBastard. WHAT THE F K IS WRONG w YOU?!

QPissedOff!!!

[KEVLANEW80]

TAHRIR.

[xiho]

Obama U fucker give back Nobel Prizes !

[FuhrerVonFreiberg]

Petition globalist new world order tyrant Obama is close Gitmo? Why was he awarded the Nobel Peace Prize when he never did a thing to deserve such an award? He must have bought it, i want one too, how much?

[BeckeyGirard]

Signed and shared

[millertas]

@kurtilein3 I have signed it and I am an Australian Citizen. This petition is for everyone who is concerned for human rights. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" (Martin Luther-King - 1963)

[millertas]

@TheJediSlayer7 Amnesty's only weapons are to expose, educate and urge. It does not have any real power BUT like many world leaders Obama does not want to be embarrassed, he doesn't want for the rest of the world to look down on the USA.