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Close Guantanamo
Eighteen years after it opened, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay remains a symbol of our nation's use of torture, and a place where even now, over a decade after they were first captured, most of the remaining prisoners have never been charged or tried for any crime. The prison at Guantanamo Bay costs more than $13 million per prisoner per year to operate, and is both immoral and counterproductive to our national interests. Former President Bush and former President Obama both agreed that the prison at Guantanamo should be closed. Today, though, it remains open, and the prisoners there are increasingly losing hope of ever leaving.
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To Congress & the President:
The prison at Guantanamo Bay is a place where the U.S. government tortured prisoners and where even today, more than a decade after they were captured, prisoners are held at the sole discretion of the government – having never been tried or convicted of any crime. Of the forty people still in Guantanamo, five remain imprisoned years after the U.S. government itself cleared them to be released. We call on our government to close Guantanamo and end detention without trial.
We stand with those who were sold for bounty.
We stand with those who were tortured.
We stand with those who are imprisoned without trial.
We stand for Guantanamo to be closed.
#TortureIsAlwaysWrong
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The 2019 film The Report, staring Adam Driver and Annette Bening, tells the story of U.S. Senate staffer Dan Jones leading an investigation into the CIA's torture program. As Jones uncovers the truth – that torture was not only brutal and immoral, but also ineffective – the CIA works to prevent his findings from ever being made public.
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