U.S.-brokered transfers to Kazakhstan led to arbitrary detention, former Guantánamo prisoners told The Intercept.
“Miraculously, they still believe in the U.S. justice system and still want to tell their story to a U.S. jury.”
Guantánamo Bay “is the iconic example of the abandonment of the rule of law,” the letter argues.
He was promised his freedom, but, with no U.S. pressure, his host country systematically denied him any semblance of normal life.
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Here at The Intercept, we are committed to ruining the holidays.
By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians.
The Coronavirus Crisis
At least four detainees who have not been charged with any crime contracted Covid-19 at the notorious maximum security prison base.
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The deceit and lies and cover-ups of the worst moments in post-9/11 history have created an endless stage of hypocrisy for all the world to see.
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(Alfreda Bikowsky Scheuer did not write this.)
After 20 years in arbitrary detention, a former Guantánamo detainee was released from a United Arab Emirates prison to his family’s care in Yemen. His freedom lasted less than a week.