Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Today marks a decade since "one of the blackest moments of the war on terror: The opening of Guantanamo Bay detention camp," writes Elizabeth O'Shea in the Sydney Morning Herald. Gitmo still holds 171 of the 779 prisoners who have been detained there — without "a fair trial and the presumption of innocence." Eighty-nine of today's detainees have been cleared for release, but are stuck in limbo after Congress blocked their transfer. Gitmo "represents an affront to the bedrock principles that underpin Western legal systems," O'Shea argues, and "as a society, we have paid a hefty price" for this miscarriage of justice.
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