Bush Lawyers’ Legal Arguments for Guantánamo Bay Paved the Way for CECOT
The Bush administration denied prisoners the right to due process. Now, Trump is doing the same.
Trump Evokes Global Symbol of Torture With Plan to Send Immigrants to Gitmo
Defense attorneys point to a long history of rights abuses at Guantánamo, including mistreatment of Haitian refugees.
John Kiriakou: The CIA & the 9/11 Plea Deals
If you don’t like the outcome of this odyssey through uncharted legal territory, blame the C.I.A., Mitch McConnell and almost every other member of Congress who served in 2009 and…
An Ex-CIA Agent Looks Back at 22 Years of Torture at Guantánamo Bay
"Guantánamo has been universally condemned by every human rights, civil liberties, and civil rights group in the world that has expressed an opinion, as well as by the United Nations,…
Sunsetting the War on Terror — Or Not
The Stubborn Legacy of America's Response to 9/11
I Was the Only U.S. Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It
The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou.
The Forever War’s Forever Legacy
Shutting Down Gitmo Is Hardly the Last Step.
UN Forcefully Hits at US Blockade of Cuba and Prison in Guantanamo
By W.T. Whitney / CounterPunch Nothing on the horizon now threatens the end of the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba. Critical voices inside the United States and beyond fall flat;…
UN Expert Demands Immediate Shutting Down of Guantanamo Prison, Apology to Inmates
UN special rapporteur Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the first such expert who was allowed to visit the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in over 20 years, noted that US’ treatment of detainees…
Blindman’s Bluff
America’s Continuing Quest to Hide Torture.
The US and War Crimes in the War on Terror
By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” – Thucydides, 5th Century BC. For the past two decades, the International…
The Global Vigils for the Closure of Guantánamo on International Women’s Day
Campaigners at the global vigils for the closure of Guantánamo on March 8, 2023. Clockwise from top left: London, Washington, D.C., New York and Mexico City.
21 years later, Guantánamo is still open — and we are still protesting to shut it down
Witness Against Torture continues to serve as a visible reminder to a forgetful U.S. public that Guantánamo is still a crime and an affront to humanity.