From the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (http://www.nrcat.org):
19 years after its opening, 40 men remain imprisoned in the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo is an abhorrent symbol of torture, not to mention a waste of money at an operating cost of more than $500 million dollars a year.
Go to https://nrcat.salsalabs.org/close-guantanamo-2021/index.html to tell Congress: Close Guantanamo.
President-elect Biden and many in the new Congress support closing the prison at Guantanamo. Write to your Members of Congress and ask them to support legislation to close Guantanamo.
For more information on steps that can be taken by the new Administration to close Guantanamo, see this Just Security blog post that NRCAT co-authored. Also, our partners at Amnesty just released a new report, “USA: Right the Wrong – Decision Time on Guantanamo.”
Sonya
End this dark part of our legacy now. This is embarrassment and travesty.