Amnesty International has called on US President Joe Biden to close the US military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which is completing 20 years of uninterrupted operation this month.
This center represents arbitrariness, injustice and torture, said the international non-governmental organization for the protection of human rights.
According to Amnesty International, Mr Biden should have closed it and brought to justice those involved in torture of detainees and other illegal activities.
There are currently 39 inmates in this center.
It was opened during the days of former Republican President George W. Bush. Bush and this were led by alleged jihadist terrorists after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. Many of them have never been charged or brought to trial.
Bush’s successor, Democrat Barack Obama, had said he intended to close the center, but met with strong opposition in the US Congress and failed. Former Republican President Donald Trump wanted the Guantanamo Bay detention center to remain open.
Joe Biden, who was Obama’s vice president, is trying to push for its closure.
In view of the twentieth anniversary of the opening of this facility in the context of the so-called war on terror, Amnesty International staged demonstrations on Saturday in several countries.
The first detainees were transferred to the center at the US military base on January 11, 2002.
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