WarCriminalsWatch Events

On Jan. 11, Guantanamo Bay Prison will enter year 16 of its torturous existence. 15 years of illegal and immoral detention and torture. 15 years of inflicting an open threat of preemptive incarceration without trial.

59 men still remain in this darkness despite Obama's 2008 promise to close Guantanamo within a year. For many they have endured the unimaginable-locked away without trial, without a charge against them.

In 2007, we said "5 years too long."  Who expected Guantanamo to go on for 15 years?

Obama is now preparing to hand this power and this prison to Trump, a man who has said, in reference to Guantanamo, "We are keeping open ... and we're gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me, we're gonna load it up." and that if President he would  “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”

Our decisive, visible, and vocal action is urgently needed. To the men who still remain, to their families, to the global community and to future generations our silence and inaction equals complicity. We cannot be complicit with a Guantanamo that remains open indefinitely or to the prospect of it taking in new detainees as part of an endless global war in which the entire world is a battlefield.

The closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp can’t wait. The abomination of U.S. torture must not only end; the rationale of “exceptionalism” — that American lives are worth more than others — must be repudiated.

Join World Can't Wait, War Criminals Watch, Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International, Center for Constitutional Rights, National Religious Coalition Against Torture and many other coalition groups:

Washington D.C. 15th Anniversary of US torture camp for Muslims at Guantanamo Bay
Close it Now! Rally and March to Close Guantanamo and End Islamophobia
Wednesday January 11 Rally:
No More Guantanamo. No Torture Presidency. No Indefinite Detention
Location: White House Ellipse
12 noon: Music
12:30: Rally
1:30: March to Department of Justice