In January of this year, on the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the notorious military prison at Guantánamo Bay on the eastern tip of Cuba, the United Nations’ top human rights office issued an excoriating report on “Gitmo” and its continued operations. “Guantánamo Bay is a site of unparalleled notoriety, defined by the systematic use of torture, and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment against hundreds of men brought to the site and deprived of their most fundamental rights,” the report stated. However, “Despite forceful, repeated and unequivocal condemnation of the operation of this horrific detention and prison complex with its associated trial processes, the United States continues to detain persons many of whom have never been charged with any crime.” TRNN correspondent David Kattenburg speaks about the continued horrors of Guantánamo Bay and the international fight to shut it down with Fionnuala Ni Aolain and Alka Pradhan.
Fionnuala Ni Aolain is the lead author of the recent UN report on Guantánamo Bay. She is the Special UN Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, University Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota, and faculty director of the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota School of Law. Alka Pradhan is Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an expert on the application of human rights and humanitarian law in counterterrorism situations, and on the impact of torture on fair trials. Pradhan is currently Human Rights Counsel at Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions and has represented over a dozen of its detainees. She currently represents one of the defendants in the capital case United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
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So life means so little if anything at all!!!
Humans can cause and inflict so much pain/torture /death on another fellow human being and not batter an eye lid, this world is such a terrible place to live it's so crazy to think that the people in a higher power have complete say over our fate weather it be legal or illegal anything goes in there eye's with no punishment or consequences for there actions, we're fuct and always have and always will be such a sad state of affairs 😔 😔.
Now Ms. Ni Aolain has visited Guantanamo as UN special rapporteur on torture and issued a scathing report. There are still 30 prisoners held there by the US imperialists
well you have 2 choices… you let them have a public hell on earth like guitmo. a place they can use to scare or remind terrorists where you as media have small incite on what happens.. or you have even more black site, floating islands where you can't even begin to fathom what they do. when theres evil on earth you need to remind those people hell does exist. thats just how that is.
did you mention Uighers that's a CIA talking point
The center of evil soul of USA outrage for god and humanity, Big desgrace forever. And american people doesn't realized what a crime commeted against humanity in the name of american people.
Gtmo shines the light on all the crimes against humanity
Military tribunals gonna prosecute traitors at GTMO keep it open hahahaha-
I'm glad you made this video. You just exposed yourself! Liers. Gitmo is where the Military Tribunals are being held. They are hanging until Dead all the Pedophile Traitors. Real Raw bullshit. Trump won. Epstein didn't kill himself. John McAfee isn't Dead. We have it All. Now we just wait for rest of the Deep State exposed
How does it benefits a society to exhibit the full potential of being human ? The heart and the mind,the good and evil, the conscience and embedded choices.
Ok look, I am a strict constitutionalist and registered libertarian. I love the work being done to expose corrupt policing and to get police to follow the strict confines of the constitution they swore an oath to protect.
However, if you're going to talk about GTMO, you should have people that aren't biased as well on your program. I was military intelligence stationed at GTMO as part of the JTF and I can tell you with absolute certainty that the representatives of the detainees are lying pieces of excrement and I would be more than willing to come on and tell some of the truths about the detainees and how they are treated there.
hi from far Brasil. #freeAssange #unblockcuba #freePalestine
Unbelievable ANYONE still backs the USA!!!
Nothing will be done by anyone but the time will come everything has it’s consequences
Training ground for PUPPET SADISTS to serve the EVIL ELITE SO CALLED UPPERCLASS PSYCHOPATHIC PARASITIC AUTHORITIES AND THEIR SECRET SOCIETIES!!! As ALL cops are TOO!!!
Well now that the usa has taken off it's mask, you can kiss the small chance this had, a goodbye.
Then that's where they need to send Hillary.
Which guantanamo.bay are we talking about the one in Cuba or the one in Washington DC for the January 6th protesters neither of them follow a bit of the law
Like many things in life it's a necessary evil where people like the current administration and it's brown nosers, the clintons, fauci, nancy pelosi Schiff, schmar, schwab, soros and many many others will go to meet justice and then their (if they haven't already)maker.
The horror of Guantanamo Bay is the product of Zionist saber rattling; "all roads lead to Rome."
How can you call yourself human after doing this. How dare you judge others. Imagine what you have to go through if you are a family member of a prisoner. Do we never learn? There are good on the planet but it gets dwarfed by the evil.