Dear Friends,

I invite you to donate today to support NRCAT's staff and members in working to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.

In 2021, NRCAT built support for closing Guantanamo by promoting a new film, The Mauritanian – a political drama about how one detainee, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, survived the CIA’s torture program and eventually won his freedom from Guantanamo. You can now watch it on Amazon Prime and other streaming services.

Throughout the year, NRCAT pressed the Biden Administration to clear Guantanamo detainees to leave the prison and to then transfer them out. We end the year with 13 of the 39 remaining detainees cleared to leave the prison – but with only one having been transferred out. 

NRCAT is organizing faith leaders and members of congregations around the country to write op-eds and letters to the editor calling on the Biden Administration to continue it’s progress in clearing detainees and to dramatically improve its pace in transferring detainees out. Our Executive Director, Rev. Ron Stief published a letter to the editor titled "The Stain of Guantanamo: Torture" in the New York Times just last month.

In January 2022, the prison at Guantanamo By will reach the 20th anniversary of the day the first detainee was transferred there - a grim milestone of detention without trial and torture that is a legal and moral failing for our nation and its leaders. NRCAT is leading the fight to persuade President Biden and Congress to transfer the 39 remaining detainees out of Guantanamo and close the prison there.

This campaign is what your donation to NRCAT supports.

Your donation today moves NRCAT one step closer to our end of year fundraising goal of $30,000. Thanks to a generous challenge match, this month your donation of $25 becomes $50, $50 becomes $100. Please donate today and together we can end torture.

We are grateful for your partnership,

Matt Hawthorne
Policy Director

PS - Just yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee held the first congressional hearing in years on closing Guantanamo. Read a statement that NRCAT and other human rights organizations submitted for the record for the hearing.