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The Bush administration created the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, a prison at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, and other offshore prisons as "law-free zones" that it believed were exempt from U.S. and international law, including the Geneva Conventions and the nearly 800-year-old writ of habeas corpus. The U.S. Supreme Court disagrees. Unfortunately, eight years of scare-mongering have taken a toll on Americans' commitment to human rights for detainees.

 

No More Guantánamos is a grassroots initiative involving concerned citizens, communities, organizations, and pro-bono attorneys representing detainees in building local support across the U.S. to ensure justice and human rights for the prisoners. Join or form a local coalition in your community.

 

New!

• Updated toolkit to help grassroots coalitions build local support for closing Guantánamo Bay prison with justice, using prisoners' stories to overcome obstacles such as scare-mongering tactics.
• Watch videos featuring former detainees, habeas lawyers and former Guantánamo guards Brandon Neely and Christopher Arendt.
  
• Bagram Prison annotated list of prisoners compiled by British author and journalist Andy Worthington. 

President Obama has promised to close Guantánamo Bay prison by January 22, 2010. His administration has cleared 78 of the prisoners for release. Other men there, at Bagram, and at other offshore prisons may also be wrongly held by the U.S. military. Some of these men can't return to their home countries.

 

Join our national effort to:

• Transform prisoners’ images in the U.S. from faceless, nameless “terrorists” to human beings who deserve fair treatment and a presumption of innocence until proven guilty
• Use prisoners’ stories to overcome unfounded fears of prisoners in your community
• Enable prisoners cleared for release but who can’t return home to settle in the U.S. or help them get where they want to go