Title: Reprieve, 100 Days to Close Guantánamo and End Torture

URL: https://reprieve.org.uk/

Collection: Tamiment-Wagner: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp & War Crimes (U.S.)

Description: Reprieve is a London based organization that uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay, and provides legal support to prisoners unable to pay for it themselves.Reprieve prioritises the cases of prisoners accused of the most extreme crimes, such as acts of murder or terrorism, as it is in such cases that human rights are most likely to be jettisoned or eroded. Reprieve focuses on cases involving the world’s most powerful governments, especially those that should be upholding the highest standards when it comes to fair trials. Reprieve has 25 full-time staff in London, five Fellows in the USA, two Fellows in Pakistan and countless volunteers around the world. We support President Obama's executive order to close the Guantanamo prison. But it must be closed not just on paper, but in reality. After seven years of detaining hundreds of men without trial, a one year timeline for closing Guantanamo is unacceptable. For the over 70 men currently on hunger strike in Guantanamo, it has been seven years too long. We want justice now. Witness Against Torture announces a campaign to close the U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and end torture and rendition by the U.S. within the first 100 days of the new administration. With Barack Obama taking office, we have a historic opportunity to reverse the disastrous policies of the last eight years.

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Subject:   Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp,  Torture--United States,  Iraq War, 2003---Prisoners and prisons, American,  100 Days to Close Guantanamo & End Torture.,  Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp (Cuba),  Iraq War 2003- --Prisoners and prisons, American.,  Torture--United States.