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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
15 Jan 2013
On January 11, a diverse gathering of people standing in near freezing temperatures in London, ensured that the grim 11th anniversary of Guantanamo Bay prison did not go unmarked. Of the nearly 800 men and children held in the prison over the years, 166 still remain today. More than half were cleared for release years ago. However, despite years of detention without trial, interrogations and torture, they remain trapped in a legal black hole.
Aisha Maniar of the London Guantanamo Campaign says, “It’s down to the public now. President Obama broke his promise four years ago to close Guantanamo Bay. The argument with so-called terrorists is that terrorists act outside of the law; but what we actually see is governments…acting outside the known confines of the law.”
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