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Add your signature to a Close Guantanamo petition here.

The petition by Morris Davis, first Chief Prosecutor for Guantanamo Bay military commissions, on Change.org, has garnered more than 200,000 signatures and is on the way toward a goal of 300,000.

Obama says Gitmo needs to close; call him now!

At a 4/30/13 White House news conference, President Obama said:

Pioneer Valley No More Guantánamos

Western Massachusetts group

Location

Northampton, MA, 01060
United States
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The Pioneer Valley group has been meeting in Northampton, MA, since May 2009.  Its members come from several cities and towns, including Springfield to the south, Amherst to the east, Greenfield to the north, and many towns in between.  It is currently working on outreach to other groups, including interfaith, and advocating on behalf of two current Guantánamo detainees.

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Your gift will help No More Guantánamos build a nationwide grassroots coalition and provide them with technical support and resources with which to educate their communities about the men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; Bagram, Afghanistan; and secret offshore prisons around the world.  We help local chapters to engage their communities in a constructive dialogue about the issues and obstacles involved in closing Guantánamo Bay prison with justice.

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Press Contact:

Nancy Talanian, Director
No More Guantánamos
ntalanian@nogitmos.org
413-665-1150

Press Releases

10/26/11, Berkeley City Council Adopts Resolution Supporting Guantánamo Prison Closure and Justice for Detainees

10/14/2010
Code Pink of Berkeley urges Guantanamo Bay detainees be welcomed in Berkeley
Examiner
02/09/2011
Guantanamo Bay detainees may get invite to Berkeley
San Francisco Chronicle

Ravil Mingazov

A judge ordered Ravil's release on May 13, 2010, under the writ of habeas corpus

Ravil Mingazov was born in Russia in 1967. He became a ballet dancer with several dance troupes. Conscripted into the Russian Army at the age of 19, he first served in the Army ballet troupe. After his conscription ended in 1988, he served voluntarily until 1996 and later returned to the military in the food supply section, where he took over a program that was in bad shape and transformed it into a model program, “the best in all the Army's.” In recognition of his achievement, he said that the General gave him a watch.

Advisory Board

Buz Eisenberg

Buz Eisenberg is a civil rights attorney who represents six Guantánamo detainees.  He is President of the International Justice Network, the only non-governmental organization currently providing legal representation to detainees held abroad in the “War on Terror.”  He also teaches law-related topics at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

About Guantánamo Bay Prison

“Sometimes, we just didn’t get the right folks.”

— Brigadier General Jay Hood, the top American officer in Guantanamo, to Wall Street Journal, 2005
 
On January 11, 2002, the first 20 prisoners picked up in Afghanistan arrived in Guantánamo, where the Bush administration believed they would be out of reach of U.S. courts. News photos show the men dressed in orange jumpsuits, shackled, with gloves, goggles, surgical masks and headphones for sensory deprivation.. [photo] Hundreds more prisoners followed.
 
But who are they, and were they really the so-called “worst of the worst”?
 

Download Petition to Welcome Detainees in Your Town

If the small island nations of Bermuda and Palau can accept detainees wrongly held by the U.S. at Guantánamo and cleared for release, why can’t the U.S.?

Download a petition and tell President Obama and Congress, "As far as I am concerned, Guantánamo detainees cleared for release are welcome in my town. All other detainees should be charged and tried in federal court or released if they have not committed a crime."

Saifullah Paracha

Saifullah Paracha, 62, is a Pakistani national.  He traveled to the US to study when he was 26 years old and remained there with his family for approximately 10 years before returning to Pakistan to set up an export business.

Paracha was scheduled to fly to Thailand for a business meeting on in July 2003, but when he arrived at the Bangkok airport on July 6, he was seized, hooded, and cuffed, thrown into the back of a vehicle and taken to an unknown location where he was held for a few days, blindfolded, with his ears covered and his hands and legs cuffed.