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Long-awaited Report by North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture Released

6000 Days of Guantanamo Prison

June 15, 2018, marks 6,000 days [3] of unjust imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay Prison.

Human Rights Coalition Blasts CIA Torturer as Trump’s Pick for CIA Head

Read the March 15, 2018, statement [4] by rights groups, including No More Guantanamos, condemning the appointment of Gina Haskel to head the CIA, due to her involvement in torture and destroying torture evidence while heading the CIA's "black site" in Thailand.

Support the Report of NC Commission of Inquiry on Torture

Over two days, the North Carolina Commission of Inquiry [5] heard from 19 witnesses [6].  Watch video of the proceedings here [7].  NCCIT needs financial support [8] to compile the testimony into a report documenting CIA torture.  They welcome your gift of any size.   Read more here [9].

Forever Human Beings

Join Witness Against Torture [10] in its new campaign [11] to close Guantanamo, where 40 men, including men who have been cleared for release, are being held indefinitely.

Witness to Guantanamo [12]

This new website features interviews with former prisoners now living in 20 countries.  It is the work of Peter Jan Honigsberg of the University of San Francisco Law School.  Read about the project in this article [13].

As of 1/19/17, 41 prisoners remain in Guantanamo [14]

The Miami Herald's Guantánamo Periodic Review Guide [15] provides an updated list of the men and their current status.  Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of Guantanamo Diary, returned to his native Mauritania on October 17, 2016.

Expose Guantanamo through Public Readings of Guantánamo Diary

Put on a local public reading of excerpts from Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary.  Find scripts and suggestions for your local reading here [16].

The Senate CIA Torture Report is here [17].

It's time for the American people to stop believing false claims that 'torture works'.  And besides, even if it did work, that does not justify using it.

The situation

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.

Be part of the solution

• Engage the public in a fact-based dialogue about the planned closure of Guantánamo Bay prison and U.S. detainee policy
• Transform prisoners’ images in the U.S. from faceless, nameless “terrorists” to human beings who deserve human rights and a presumption of innocence until proven guilty
• Use prisoners’ stories to overcome unfounded fears of prisoners in your community

New!

• New videos include a March 30 conversation on U.S. detention policies [19] featuring Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Michael Sullivan of Ashcroft Sullivan, and weekly vigils [20] of the Des Moines Anti-Torture Collective.
• Show the remaining prisoners that the world has not forgotten them.  Write a letter or send a card today. [21]

• Updated toolkit [22] to support grassroots public education about the planned closure of  Guantánamo Bay prison, using prisoners' stories to overcome musunderstandings about the prisoners.
• Bagram Prison [23] annotated list of prisoners compiled by Andy Worthington [24].