Amnesty International: Biden must live up to its promise to close Guantanamo
According to IRNA on Saturday, Deutsche Welle website wrote: Guantanamo Bay, which was built to detain foreign suspects in the “war on terror” in the United States, is located in one of the US bases in Cuba due to its severe and inhumane interrogation methods. It is known for its notoriety.
Critics say the methods used to interrogate suspects in the prison are as brutal as torture.
Dafin Ovitar, Amnesty International’s director of security, said in a statement: “The longer the prison is open and used, the more it damages the United States’ reputation for protecting human rights worldwide.”
Since Guantanamo Bay was founded on January 12, 2002, approximately 780 people have been arrested and charged with the crime.
There are still 39 detainees in the detention center, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, suspected of plotting the 9/11 attacks on the US Twin Towers.
Even two decades after the attacks, Sheikh Mohammad’s case is still in pre-trial stages due to numerous delays in pursuing the case. The date of the military tribunal for the suspects is also unknown.
Matthias Schreiber, Amnesty International’s member in Germany, told AFP that Guantanamo had set a dangerous tradition both in terms of lack of progress in the rule of law and in terms of immunity for serious human rights abuses such as torture and disappearances. Detainees in this prison do not have access to a fair trial in accordance with the law.
He called on the international community to force the United States to close the prison.
Former United States President Barack Obama ordered the prison closed in 2009, but failed to do so during his presidency.
But former US President Donald Trump sought to preserve the prison, also known as Gitmo.
Biden promised during his campaign that he would close the prison before the end of his presidency.
However, he faces serious resistance in Congress. The law still does not allow the US federal government to transfer prisoners to other prisons on the American mainland.
Last December, US lawmakers added a clause to the defense budget that barred the use of funds to transfer Guantanamo detainees to prisons in some countries allied with Washington or within the United States itself.
The Biden administration said in a statement that the White House has long insisted that such provisions limit the executive branch’s ability to decide on Guantanamo detainees and where they will be sent after the prison closes.
“More detainees can be transferred from Guantanamo to other countries like Germany, which has already accepted more Guantanamo detainees and can accommodate more,” Schreiber said.
Criticizing Washington’s claims of support for democracy and the role of world leadership, the Russian Foreign Ministry recently said that the conditions of detention in many US prisons are humiliating and that Washington remains silent about the torture of people at Guantanamo Bay. US intelligence agencies are the creators of secret prisons in their allies; An action that is unprecedented in the world.
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