Dear Friends, Sadly, today marks the 24th anniversary of the opening of the post-9/11 U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay — a prison that is synonymous with torture, indefinite detention, and the erosion of fundamental human rights. Fifteen men remain in post-9/11 detention in the facility, six of whom have never been charged with a crime and three of whom have long been cleared for release by U.S. national security agencies. Advocates have little hope that the Trump Administration will provide due process for these fifteen men at any time in the next three years. But there is still a role for both litigation and advocacy. When the Administration announced in early 2025 that it wanted to be able to hold 30,000 immigrants at Guantánamo, NRCAT and other human rights advocates immediately turned our attention to fighting this plan. In what we hope was a win for legal and community advocacy, only a little more than 700 immigrants were sent to Guantánamo in 2025. Some have been held in the military detention facilities portion of the base, and some in the adjacent Migrant Operations Center. There are a number of ways you can recognize this day of mourning by helping to close Guantánamo: |
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