(11 Jan 2018) 16 years after the opening of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, several dozen activists held a rally, in front of the White House, demanding its closure.
"Guantanamo Bay now serves as a symbol of torture, injustice and oppression," said Mark Fallon, an international security consultant.
Meanwhile, eleven prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention filed a legal challenge Thursday against President Donald Trump, whose administration has not released or transferred anyone from the U.S. base in Cuba over the past year.
Trump has not formally released a Guantanamo policy but his administration has not released any of the five prisoners who were determined to be eligible to depart by multiple government agencies and not added any additional men to the cleared list. There are 41 men still held at Guantanamo.
The prisoners' legal challenge argues that the Authorized Use of Military Force adopted by Congress in 2001 only allows "limited military detention" and not "perpetual detention disconnected from any legitimate purpose."
They also note that because of age and ill health, some may not survive to the end of the Trump administration.
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