New legal action launched today, 11th January 2018, on the 16th anniversary of Guant\u00e1namo’s opening\u00a0 – Reprieve, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and co-counsel have filed a mass challenge to Donald Trump\u2019s continued detention of prisoners at Guant\u00e1namo Bay.<\/p>\n
Our two organisations lead the fight for the rights of Guantanamo detainees and between us have freed more prisoners from Guantanamo than any other organisation in thew world.<\/p>\n
This fresh legal action argues that continued detention is unconstitutional, because any legitimate rationale for initially detaining these men has long since expired.<\/p>\n
Some of the men participating in today\u2019s flegal action have been detained in Guant\u00e1namo for nearly 16 years without charge or trial. Among them are Reprieve clients Abdul Latif Nasser and Towfiq Bihani \u2013 who have been approved for transfer, but narrowly missed their chance at release in the final days of the Obama administration.<\/p>\n
Since Guant\u00e1namo opened, it\u2019s been clear to all \u2013 including U.S. officials \u2013 that the detainees were being held on the basis of mistakes, faulty evidence, and forced \u2018confessions\u2019. The U.S. has had 16 years to build a case against these men, and yet 28 of 41 prisoners are held without charge or a trial of any kind \u2013 a shocking violation of America\u2019s founding principles. If the President won\u2019t close Guant\u00e1namo, then the other branches of government must take action instead to finally restore the rule of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Continued detention is unconstitutional, because any legitimate rationale for initially detaining these men has long since expired…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n