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Urgent: Free Toffiq al-Bihani

mardi 27 février 2018 à 01:00

US citizens: Call on Mattis to free Toffiq al-Bihani, and to end imprisonment without trial.

Here's the message I put in.

Dear Secretary Mattis,

I urge you to immediately transfer Toffiq al-Bihani, who has been imprisoned at Guantánamo without charge or fair trial since 2003. He faces no charges and the US already said there is no reason to keep him in prison.

Imprisonment without trial is vicious and the fact that the US practices this is a blot on our country. Secondarily, it inspires hatred which can express itself as terrorism. Justice and human rights demand that the US give each prisoner in Guantanamo a fair trial or release him. Those who are convicted should be treated according to the US constitution, which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

Those responsible for torture and enforced disappearance must be brought to justice in fair trial.

In the name of our country's honor, and the Constitution you have sworn to defend,