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DESCRIPTION:"Many observers had hoped that the handful of transfers in the beginning of 
 2023 were a sign of, and momentum toward, significantly more to come. Over 
 the summer and into the fall, it looked that way. Until it 
 didn't..."\n\nJoin us to protest President Biden's failure to close 
 America's Gulag\n \nWednesday February 7, 4:30pm\nUN Plaza\nSan Francisco 
 Civic Center\n\nPolicy analysts Yumna Rizvi and Scott Roehm at the Center 
 for Victims of Torture suggest that reason is political; "If so, and absent 
 some other compelling justification — the need to focus on the situation 
 in the Middle East would not be a compelling one, given it is unrelated to 
 Guantanamo transfers and there will always be a crisis to manage — the 
 decision [to allow prisoners to languish at Guantanamo] is as misguided as 
 it is disheartening."\n\nMeanwhile, conditions of confinement continue to 
 deteriorate.\n\nThe Biden administration tried to minimize the impact of a 
 special 2023 United Nations report that "cumulative effects of certain 
 structural deficiencies at Guantanamo amount to cruel, inhuman and 
 degrading treatment under international law," disagreeing with those 
 findings at a fifth periodic review of U.S. compliance.\n\n"Guantanamo 
 continues to cause profound damage both inside and outside of its walls," 
 charge Rizvi and Roehm. "The steps to close Guantanamo are there for the 
 taking, and 2024 could be its last chance to take them.”\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/02/06/18862873.php
SUMMARY:'Another Lost Year on Guantanamo'
LOCATION:UN Plaza\nSan Francisco Civic Center
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/02/06/18862873.php
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