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Contact Your Members of Congress: Close Guantanamo

Each year Congress passes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorizes the Department of Defense to conduct its various activities. For more than a decade, Congress has included language in the NDAA that bars Guantanamo prison detainees from being transferred to the U.S. for any reason – even for trial or for necessary medical treatment.

The NDAA has also been used to limit transfers to other countries, barring some countries from receiving Guantanamo detainees entirely, and putting bureaucratic hurdles in place that make all transfers unnecessarily complicated. This year though, Congress can support President Biden in ending indefinite detention and closing the internationally recognized symbol of torture that is the prison at Guantanamo by passing an NDAA that lifts the restrictions on transfers.

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Ask your Members of Congress to Close Guantanamo

Subject: Lift the restrictions on transferring detainees out of Guantanamo

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Dear Member of Congress, Please lift the restrictions on transferring detainees out of Guantanamo Bay. In particular, please ensure that the next National Defense Authorization Act does not ban detainees from being transferred to the U.S., and that it lifts the restrictions on transferring detainees to other countries. Each and every year it costs the taxpayer more than $13,000,000 per detainee to run the prison at Guantanamo. That makes Guantanamo the most expensive (per prisoner), least tax-efficient prison in the world. Worse, the prison largely holds people who have never been tried for (or in many cases have never even been charged with) any crime whatsoever. Several of the people there were also tortured by U.S. personnel, either at Guantanamo or at other locations. The prison is against American values and it is a waste of American money. Please lift the restrictions on transferring detainees out of Guantanamo. The prison should be closed this year. Sincerely,

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