Bidenâs Plan to End Afghanistan War Gives Some Detainees Hope for Release
The legal basis for indefinite detention at Guantánamo is to prevent combatants from returning to the battlefield. But what if their old battlefield is no more?
A detainee in a communal cellblock of Guantánamo Bay in 2019. Lawyers for at least two prisoners there contended this week that the governmentâs legal basis for detaining their clients was evaporating.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
April 21, 2021Updated 3:47 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON â President Biden has declared that he intends to end the war in Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks this year. But it is less clear whether anything will change for detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay that was opened for that war.