As more than 100 Guantánamo Bay prisoners enter the fifth week of their
hunger strike, the Obama administration has defended their detention at a
hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A number
of prisoners have been held without charge for more than 11 years, and
more than half have been cleared for release. Attorneys for the
prisoners told the hearing that the lack of hope for release among those
who do not face charges has created a climate of despair. The senior
adviser for Guantánamo policy countered that the Obama administration is
working within restrictions imposed by Congress to transfer prisoners
out of the prison as part of an effort to close the facility — one of
President Obama’s original campaign promises. We speak to Kristine
Huskey, director of the Anti-Torture Program for Physicians for Human
Rights and one of the first attorneys to represent Guantánamo detainees.
The author of "Justice at Guantánamo: One Woman’s Odyssey and Her
Crusade for Human Rights," Huskey testified at Tuesday’s hearing. We’re
also joined by Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney with the Center
for Constitutional Rights.
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Source: Democracy Now!
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