Dear Friends,

Today, 19 years after its opening, 40 men remain imprisoned in the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Guantanamo is an abhorrent symbol of torture, not to mention a waste of money at an operating cost of more than $500 million dollars a year.

Tell Congress: Close Guantanamo

President-elect Biden and many in the new Congress support closing the prison at Guantanamo. Write to your Members of Congress and ask them to support legislation to close Guantanamo.

We also invite you to join us in prayer today as the faith community and human rights advocates around the world once again come together to call for closing this international stain on democracy.

For more information on steps that can be taken by the new Administration to close Guantanamo, see this Just Security blog post that NRCAT co-authored. Also, our partners at Amnesty just released a new report, "USA: Right the Wrong - Decision Time on Guantanamo."

Sincerely,

Matt Hawthorne 
Policy Director
National Religious Campaign Against Torture

PS - You are invited to join one of these online events today, January 11th:

• NRCAT is co-sponsoring an online rally organized by ICUJP and other Los Angeles partners at 10am PT / 1pm ET.
• NRCAT partners are holding a 19 Years of Guantanamo: Remembering the Men Detained vigil at 1pm ET.
• A Rights or Rightlessness? The Lives of Men Imprisoned at Guantánamo webinar is at 5pm ET.

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