{"id":51713,"date":"2012-01-10T16:38:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=51713"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T21:47:55","slug":"guantanamo-prisons-10th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/guantanamo-prisons-10th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Guant\u00e1namo Prison\u2019s 10th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who find the NH primary (and the whole primary season) to be some mix of laughable, nightmarish and banal, consider this, as reported by today by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\"><strong>Democracy Now!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51714\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dem-Now-logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dem-Now-logo1.jpg?resize=275%2C158&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"Dem Now logo\" width=\"275\" height=\"158\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51714\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">                                                                                                                                         <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Detainees at the U.S. military base at Guant\u00e1namo Bay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/1\/10\/guantnamo_prisoners_launch_hunger_strike\">launched a hunger strike today<\/a> marking the prison\u2019s 10th anniversary [which is tomorrow], inspired in part by U.S. activists who have called for a national day of action. &#8220;They will be staging a series of peaceful protests that will involve sit-ins with signs and banners in the part of the prison that has communal areas, as well as hunger strikes,&#8221; says Ramzi Kassem, counsel to a number of Guant\u00e1namo prisoners. He notes his clients pay &#8220;particularly close attention to any gestures of protest in the United States&#8230; And they\u2019re always very moved by the fact that Americans stand in solidarity with what they\u2019re going through and what their families are experiencing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, a major demonstration is planned in Washington, D.C., where organizers say they will form a human chain stretching from the White House to the Capitol, with participants wearing orange jumpsuits to represent the prisoners at Guant\u00e1namo and at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan who are still held without charge or trial.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/1\/10\/guantnamo_exclusive_former_prisoner_chief_prosecutor\">interview Air Force Colonel Morris Davis<\/a>, the former chief prosecutor at the military prison, and former Guant\u00e1namo prisoner Omar Deghayes. Davis resigned his position in 2007 in protest of what he called political interference in the military commissions of Guant\u00e1namo prisoners, an calls for Obama to close the facility. Deghayes, who was arrested in Pakistan as a terror suspect and held in U.S. custody from May 2002 until December 2007, describes the treatment (torture) and conditions he and others endured.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, comments on President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2012\/1\/10\/ndaa_obama_signs_law_restricting_transfer\">Obama\u2019s recent approval of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)<\/a>, which some legal experts say would authorize the military to indefinitely jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect \u2014 without charge or trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who find the NH primary (and the whole primary season) to be some mix of laughable, nightmarish and banal, consider this, as reported by today by Democracy Now! Detainees at the U.S. military base at Guant\u00e1namo Bay launched a hunger strike today marking the prison\u2019s 10th anniversary [which is tomorrow], inspired in part &#8230; <a title=\"Guant\u00e1namo Prison\u2019s 10th Anniversary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/guantanamo-prisons-10th-anniversary\/\" aria-label=\"More on Guant\u00e1namo Prison\u2019s 10th Anniversary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}