This video, broadcast on November 17, includes audio of Shaker Aamer and an interview with his attorney, Clive Stafford Smith.
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Northampton, MA
WHEREAS the practice of holding people in the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base detention center (hereafter referred to as “Guantánamo Bay detention center”) represents the continuation of a repudiated foreign policy and stain upon the character of the United States; and
WHEREAS over 100 of the 166 remaining prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay detention center have been on hunger strike for over 98 days to protest the lack of basic human and legal rights as outlined by the U.S. Constitution and international law; and
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Chicago, IL
WHEREAS, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention) defines torture as:
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Within the proposed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, S. 1867) is a section that the Senate Armed Services Committee drafted in secret and approved unanimously. The section would require the military to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, any terrorism suspect--including a U.S. citizen or resident--who is suspected of being a member of al-Qaeda or an associated group and involved in planning or carrying out an attack against the United States.