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“I am an example because the government’s suspicion that I was a criminal was totally and one hundred percent wrong. I was never charged, let alone convicted, of any crime. The only independent judge I ever faced during my ordeal had ordered my release after seeing the secret evidence that even I wasn’t allowed to see.”
Former Guantánamo detainee
Mohamedou Slahi, referred to as “The Mauritanian” by intelligence officials
In early February 2021, the Biden administration launched a formal review of the future of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. Will there be a genuine commitment to truth, accountability and remedy?
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At the beginning of the pandemic, we ran an editorial called âThe best in us.â It was a salute to the outstanding volunteer work done my so many. It was also a plea that the compassionate and committed response to these hard times would grow and continue.
More than at any other time in recent history, people in all manner of endeavour and of all age and status are reaching out and helping those most vulnerable. It is as if this crisis has raised conscience in an age which many had considered unconscionable.
Unconscionable in the sense that we had become a society of inelegant self-absorption and ungracious consumerism. But so much of that has changed. And so many have helped changed. Weâve featured these stories and profiled the people in our pages every week.
New:
Close Guantanamo!
The incoming administration in the US represents a fresh opportunity to press for closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Forty men continue to be held there, with their lives in limbo despite court orders for many of them to be released. Some have been held for almost 20 years.
Amnesty has released new research on the ongoing human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay.
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Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled their homes in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State after the military unleashed a brutal campaign of violence against them. Nearly one million live in the threadbare camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh where the conditions are made even more difficult by the COVID 19 pandemic.