

Stop Deporting Guantanamo Detainees to Persecution at Home


Stop Deporting Guantanamo Detainees to Persecution at Home
The Issue
Hard to imagine a worse fate than being wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. But as if being detained in the U.S.'s offshore human-rights loophole isn't enough, the U.S. Military is now "freeing" prisoners back to countries where there is clear danger to their lives.
As with any deportation, a detainee has the right to protest that the country of repatriation is not safe. The 1994 Convention Against Torture is a legal safeguard that protects any forcible return to a country with a proven track record for abuse that may affect the safety of the prisoner in question.
Yet since Obama's innauguration (remember when he promised to shut Guantanamo down?), two freed Guantanamo detainees have been forcibly transferred to Algeria on separate occasions, despite their avid protests that their lives would be at risk once they touched down on Algerian soil.
I never imagined saying this, but these prisoners may be better of at Guantanamo than being sent back to Algeria. Now that's something. Tell the U.S. Military to stop deporting Guantanamo detainees to countries where they may face further human rights abuses. It's the least they could do.
The Issue
Hard to imagine a worse fate than being wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. But as if being detained in the U.S.'s offshore human-rights loophole isn't enough, the U.S. Military is now "freeing" prisoners back to countries where there is clear danger to their lives.
As with any deportation, a detainee has the right to protest that the country of repatriation is not safe. The 1994 Convention Against Torture is a legal safeguard that protects any forcible return to a country with a proven track record for abuse that may affect the safety of the prisoner in question.
Yet since Obama's innauguration (remember when he promised to shut Guantanamo down?), two freed Guantanamo detainees have been forcibly transferred to Algeria on separate occasions, despite their avid protests that their lives would be at risk once they touched down on Algerian soil.
I never imagined saying this, but these prisoners may be better of at Guantanamo than being sent back to Algeria. Now that's something. Tell the U.S. Military to stop deporting Guantanamo detainees to countries where they may face further human rights abuses. It's the least they could do.
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Petition created on January 14, 2011