{"id":8611,"date":"2018-01-31T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T13:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:58:28","slug":"trumps-executive-order-guantanamo-stays-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/2018\/01\/31\/trumps-executive-order-guantanamo-stays-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Executive Order – Guant\u00e1namo stays open"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his State of the Union speech\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0night, President Trump announced a new\u00a0Executive Order\u00a0to\u00a0overturn\u00a0the US Government\u2019s\u00a0commitment to close<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Guant\u00e1namo Bay.<\/p>\n

There are currently 41 men who remain\u00a0detained\u00a0in Guant\u00e1namo.\u00a0Reprieve\u00a0assists 8 of them\u2014none of whom have been charged with a crime or offered a fair trial.\u00a0The new Executive Order is expected to leave the remaining men in limbo indefinitely, with no access to any means of proving their innocence or returning to their families.<\/p>\n

Among those still detained in Guantanamo is Reprieve client Towfiq Bihani<\/a>, who has been held in the illegal prison since early 2003.\u00a0Towfiq has never been charged with a crime, and has been officially cleared him for release through a rigorous process requiring the unanimous agreement of six US security and defense agencies. Prison authorities prepared him for release three times, going so far as to provide him with his \u2018release clothing.\u2019 Despite this, Towfiq remains detained.<\/p>\n

Trump regularly talks loudly about making America great,\u00a0but\u00a0with the stroke of a pen he has fundamentally undermined the American value of justice enshrined in the first line of the Constitution.\u00a0Even\u00a0Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s creator,\u00a0George\u00a0W.\u00a0Bush\u00a0eventually recognized it was counter-productive and nothing more than a \u201cpropaganda tool<\/a>\u201d for enemies of the US.\u00a0Members of Congress and political leaders\u00a0should\u00a0oppose this Order and\u00a0work together\u00a0to\u00a0insist those currently detained indefinitely are charged or released.<\/p>\n

A country does not become great by shutting its ears to the views of its close allies. Leaders in Europe and elsewhere have vocally opposed Guant\u00e1namo over many years and President Trump should be listening to their principled and strategic concerns. If he hasn\u2019t heard them yet, then American\u2019s partners need to repeat their opposition to this island torture chamber, and loudly, until he understands how damaging this move will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his State of the Union speech\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0night, President Trump announced a new\u00a0Executive Order\u00a0to\u00a0overturn\u00a0the US Government\u2019s\u00a0commitment to close\u00a0the\u00a0Guant\u00e1namo Bay. 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