11 Men Freed After 20+ Years of "Extreme Deprivation." Will Biden Close Guantánamo for Good?
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Eleven Yemeni men imprisoned without charge or trial at the Guantánamo Bay detention center for more than two decades have just been released to Oman to restart their lives. This latest transfer brings the total number of men detained at Guantánamo down to 15. Civil rights lawyers Ramzi Kassem and Pardiss Kebriaei, who have each represented many Guantánamo detainees, including some of the men just released, say closing the notorious detention center "has always been a question of political will," and that the Biden administration must take action to free the remaining prisoners and "end of the system of indefinite detention" as soon as possible.
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Inhumane treatment
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We live in a world where you’ll get a Nobel peace prize for making the rich richer and are put in torture prisons for being doctors in Gaza trying to save lives
Imagine being locked up at 28 with no charge and getting out at age 51. Shame on the United States government. Close this place of horrors.
They don't know what shame is. Nor do they care...
They should be compensated
Guantanamo. Should be close at once, forever and ever.
@@AiSenussi: Absolutely.
You just described more courts in every city in America
Homelessness in US.
Hunger in US.
No health care in US.
BUT we have half a BBillion for this! That's sick !!!
You have forgotten the 800 military bases, rhe regime change abroad, the wars, the killings ....complete the list
This really puts things into perspective.
California sent 61mill to Israel last year. And there was no water to use on the fires.
No health care? Where do you live?
Welcome into the Lunatic Asylum
This is the reason I stopped practicing law. If innocent people can be held for decades, if torture has no consequence, there was no point in pretending justice exists.
I am sorry you stopped practicing law. (I am not US citizen but have my place in Denmark, they are just as currupt and ego minded as your politicians, unfortunately) I have my joy in praying and practicing law on my own street :)
So I stopped watching the never ending parade of politicans who are there because it pays well and they are all very rich on the cost of all others. I read the bible a lot and it makes me happy to hear about God every chance I get. I love God. I am so surprised to learn that the US put out bounties to get anybody as a prisoners ? What! And this is news 23 years later!? Where is the loyalty to us all.
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Injustice system (sick of it all) 😮
Hunger 4 justice: I have a question for you, being into US law, maybe you can explain what you think about the presidential rallys where Trump's team started to buy off voters, simply give out 1 mio every day the last 30 days, when there is a law against it, I know the law because I asked AI about it and was told the specific law against bribery during elections. You are not allowed to make anybody vote for you by giving money or even saying that you will give them something for their vote. I was so anticipating the cnn and nbc or abc news to address this, and that the justice system to simply call time out against Trump. Nothing happened. I was looking after some righteous journalist (Jon S.) to come out and call it unlawfull. Not a tweet not a word. I ask, why? Are they afraid of telling the truth, or am I missing something?
@@bjj6910 Your bible thumping and god are irrelevant.
Fortunately there are those who will stand up to defend the poor and defenseless in this hollow age of greed and deception.
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@@Ciscodays Who?
@@Ciscodays yes, like the January 6 prisoners who were deceived
and thrown into a solitary confinement
When
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Guantanamo should have been closed and pulled apart brick by brick over 20 years ago.
The fact that it wasn't, that our administrations justified it over and over, that the Bush admin was defending it as somehow necessary, was the beginning of my awareness and lack of trust in the US government. Our hunger for war and depravity against "the other," without even charges or conviction (which we know can be rigged, itself) is shameful and disgusting.
For a country that is supposed to have Rule of Law, it should never have existed. Not closed. Never existed. No excuse.
Nearly was, but barak django obomba kept it going
@royceroyce7715 And make no mistake, Obama and his drone program to extra judicially murder innocent people, his starting of the dirty wars in Syria via Operation Timber Sycamore, his failure to support Habeus Corpus even as a senator, his rabid prosecution of whistle blowers, he also is a war criminal along with Bush and Cheney. War criminals ever single one, and Biden is perhaps the worst. All disgusting.
Don't forget the propaganda about the rest of the world that you are constantly drenched in. It has Americans häting everyone else in the world and willing to go to wär to feed the greed machine. That's why that place is still open.
Why haven’t 99.9% of journalists worldwide interviewed any of the many prisoners from Guantanamo since 9/11/2001? Why? We want to hear their stories, their testimony!
Democracy Now has though. I think even around this time last year they did.
Risk their lives?
They were caught on the battlefield in Afghanistan and Iraq. Mercenaries fighting America.
Their testimony is terror.
My reply is getting deleted witth a link. Look up My brother's keeper Guantanamo here...
Western media is mostly run and owned by private investors with agendas.
They are not prisoners. They are hostages that have been kidnapped.
True and same with most of the 10k Palestinians held and tortured without trial in Israeli detention camps, that US government refuses to acknowledge and continues to support.
Very similar to Israel's administrative detention of Palestinians.
RELEASE THE HOSTAGES.... says israhell. 😂😂
The same @@HumanityandIntegrity
@@HumanityandIntegrity very similar to the Biden admin locking up Jan 6 prisoners for being allowed to walk into the capitol that day and being held in solitary confinement and horrid conditions
They were charged with being "Muslim."
To the point 💯💯💯
“Arab out of place”? Truly racist.
Absolutely 💯 agree
Being brown or black without the proper permits and authorisation
This country’s prison policies are a global disgrace
Because, prison is a business. Greed runs this country.
It is Human Right violation, US has many !
Ashamed of my country's anti democracy actions.
Lobby trumps democracy
Ditto....I am ashamed as well.
@@heyboss15 You mean Trumps fascism.
They want this for US Citizens now set up by crooked foreign and private intel under Trump
@@docholiday8029 But all these are for democracy.
23 years, no charges . . .
😡😡😡im fuming how can they keep someone for 23 years without any charges
it must be someplace in the USA
Disgraceful and disgusting
Disgusting disgraceful dishearteningly just shameful
And then we wonder why we’re hated throughout the world
This is the greatest nation that wants to teach the world about democracy and human rights!
I’ve been following them thru a group in the UK that sends out e mails about their situations for years , they were set for release for years and were still kept anyway . What justice …😢
No country would accept them.
@@margaretwince2748Oman did and the U.S. government would not release them previously even tho they were granted release , still 3 more in there in the same condition . That’s not the way the U.S. justice system is supposed to work .
Thanks for your effort!!!
@@mschickie007 That's why it's not in the US, but in Cuba.
UK is supporting all kinda torture and human rights violations thru all years, but can not keep own country on running. Britain is broke and the schools and healthcare is down drain. Look at the justis system in UK when it's a bigger crime to talk about crimes then committing it. Kid Starver was not going after pedophiles because they where not from UK or as Jimmy Savile a friend of the ruling elite......
Shameful
Remember when the CIA had black sites in Syria
They're coming back...
Where?
they are still there
Western imperialism is the biggest dizeaze to this world
Was that abu graeb where all this torture took place. Left me speechless
Why do we criticize Asad when the US has their own sednayA named as Guantánamo?
PsyOps.
We abducted and transferred a Canadian citizen for torture by Assad. 100% complicit.
Es la hipocresía y el cinismo de Occidente ,una vergüenza
Everything the western imperialists accuse others of is basically confessions of themselves.
Great point that's what was thinking
How unjust is it to hold people for 20 years without trial .
Ask Israel.
@@MebbWrbb touche. They learnt it from the Israelies.
Apparently, according to the US government, it's not unjust when the US government does it, because it's defending "freedom". (or, to be more accurate in this case, "freedumb".)
@@randompersonFire Yes. That has been their excus for decades giving them the right to start wars in any country they want, and Israel is the same. They have created most of the wars in the middle east and destroyed its people and its culture, trying to steal their resources and leaving the people destitute. It is a shameful inditement on the US. But will they change - I doubt it while they still hold the monetary power over the world. The sooner BRICS offers a better alternative to the US dollar nothing will change. They are just war mongers making money from selling arms, creating wars and destroying everything in their path to keep people reliant on them to then survive because the US has destroyed their infrastructure and ability to function as a country without US support. It is the US way of domination of the world. And one has to wonder why other western countries bow down to them. But I hope times are changing for the betterment of the whole world.
Amy, please do a story on Afia Siddiqui who was wrongly accused and sentenced. She has suffered horrendous torture and living conditions.
Most Americans are unaware of her story. May God bring her justice and freedom soon
@@gheedmurtadi6799 Ameen
And they murdered her baby as well.
Yes
Thank you so much Pardiss Kebriaci for your dedication to Constitutional Rights and to Ramsi Kassem. Both of you have worked so hard and so honorably to navigate gross injustice in order to free innocent men abused by the US government, a government that is responsible for the deaths of 24 million people worldwide.
This is the worlds best news outlet ever.
At spreading leftist propaganda
This, the country that thinks it can tell the rest of the world how to run....
Absolutely horrible
As the saying goes... "rules for thee but not for me".
This is huge no charges ever after 20 years plus
How sick is USA
And on CUBAs sovereign land
I hope each and every one of these people bring cases against the United States for illegal detainment not only without a fair trial but even without charge.
Thanks Ami your team all you do. You're one of the best channels Democracy Now. A real to the heart YT channel. your guests too. Who would have ever thought a day would come talks of closing Quatanamo Bay down. Certainly not in my lifetime. The sheer mental torture & suffering all those held in there. What an inquiry report if ever come to pass. All those brave QB soldiers of our hearts 💕 a very long good healthy life to you.
How many were tortured to death, died of untreated illnesses or became mental jellos? The USA has no limit to the levels of depravity it stoops to.
Dr aafya Siddiqui, please release the innocent Sold by Pakistani army generals isi to the CIA for dollars, now for 20 years without any crime,
Yesss
Yes
@shakirsohail1681 her and her children, both victims. Horrific and she is still rotting in prison.
This is justice american style. No wonder the world is turning away from the west.
You haven't seen nothing yet! :) Don't mess with the children, and you did (the West)!
More accurate - injustice
I wish you'd turn away from the west. Out 🇬🇧🦵
And this is the free, western, democratic world,
Same world that is so loud about human rights in China Russia and Iran. Silent about human rights in Palestine, or their own country
It’s sickening
Absolutely 💯 agree
Indeed!
It’s run by greedy lying hypocrites!
All we see is double standards!
Indeed, these are all Hostages and Kidnapped! Not prisoners!
What they did in guantonimo has been, can, and will be done to US citizens on US soil...this was a special site set aside for specific foreigners.
And what the Jews/Israelis are doing to the Palestinian children, they will also do to you! Do not be mistaken!
No justice
@@fellsmoke that is what many Americans do not comprehend
Financial reparations are in order.
Since when are colonial imperialists ever held accountable? You see what shtsrael is doing….
Financial? Try mortal reparations.
stop worshiping money!
How humans treat each other is most disturbing and disgraceful
I wouldn’t call the people that do these things human
Not humans - humans are humane!
How inhumane psychopaths treat humans is a disgrace!
Humanity needs to put aside our differences (trivial in comparison) and unite to save Humanity.
Political prisoners.
Just a whitewashed way of saying illegally detained prisoners.
Gitmo should have be closed a long time ago. It should have never been opened in the first place.
The question is who shall compensate for the false imprisonment of the people?! Imagine these were Americans in a middle eastern country! Even now their are others still detained unlawfully.
Hostages been free after 20 years 💔 shut it down
Syed, thank you so much for truthtelling 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻!!!
This is heartbreaking! Imagine you enter prison for no crime and no charge at 23 yrs old and you leave at 51 yrs old while enduring physical and emotional abuse for decades! This is what the US government allows to happen while boasting arrogantly about being the beacon of morality and human rights🤮
It's more of a "punishment"
Thank you ami❤
Amy you are a blessing from high above.
Sure you are Amy!
One America's finest
I think several have filed charges against the U.S. State Department.
The sufferings of those innocents are unimaginable.
"Innocents??" Okay, now you're just being ridiculous.
@ Being trapped in a dark prison on a remote island without evidence makes you question the true nature of American democracy and justice, especially the ideals symbolized by the Statue of Liberty. Watching *Loose Change 2* helps reveal who the real culprits are. For a long time, Islam and Muslims have been unfairly blamed by certain people with hidden agendas and ideologies. Once you understand why Muslims are scapegoated for things they didn't do, you begin to realize how much you've been misled and brainwashed. I once held the same misconceptions, believing the "bad guys" were outsiders, but now I see the truth. The real problems are within the USA, not from outside forces.
One key aspect that reveals the truth is how the AIPAC lobby controls Congress and how the U.S. media spreads Israel’s narrative about the Palestinians. The reality is that both the U.S. and Israel are complicit in the genocide happening in Gaza.
@@einnAnnie Being trapped in a dark prison for years on a remote island without evidence makes you question the true nature of American democracy and justice, especially the ideals symbolized by the Statue of Liberty. Watching *Loose Change 2* helps reveal who the real culprits are. For a long time, Islam and Muslims have been unfairly blamed by certain people with hidden agendas and ideologies. Once you understand why Muslims are scapegoated for things they didn't do, you begin to realize how much you've been misled and brainwashed. I once held the same misconceptions, believing the "bad guys" were outsiders, but now I see the truth. The real problems are within the USA, not from outside forces.
One key aspect that reveals the truth is how the AIPAC lobby controls Congress and how the U.S. media spreads Israel’s narrative about the Palestinians. The reality is that both the U.S. and Israel are complicit in the genocide happening in Gaza..
@@einnAnnieanything to justify your moral failures I suppose. If you support this then you have failed as a human being.
@@einnAnnie Have the men in these video done any crimes? Clearly in the video it says they were never charged with any crimes!
It was a concentration camp.
Criminal, can't imagine 20 years without being charged
That’s because they didn’t do anything
Plenty more in Israelie prisons jailed for just being Palestinian.
@@vickib4063 Yes that’s their “crime” being Palestine, being the indigenous people and living on the land the evil ones want. The sad part is they’re innocent. The Sde Teiman torture detention center is full of doctors, medics, journalists, people they pick up at random…
Shame of America
ΣΑΣ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ ΚΥΡΙΑ ΓΚΟΥΜΤΜΑΝ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΓΚΥΡΗ ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΗ!!!
It happen in Israel right now.
@@syedfuadin4861 they learned well from their American financiers.
Thank you for keeping this issue in the news We must close this hellhole now under Biden! He can fit in the last days
LONG overdue
If those brutal criminals that put those innocent people in Guantanamo think that they will get away with no justice you are wrong
Everyone will be charge sooner or later
Even the worst criminals have lawyers that represent them is the most despicable act committed to those innocent people
Unfortunately they HAVE gotten away with it
Put the president there.
All the Presidents! This has gone on for decades!
Obama ran on a promise to close Guantanamo!!!
Thank you very much Mama.
Half a billion dollars wasted.
And how many lives
No better than Assad
Fascists hate art and self expression. They also fear of knowledge sharing and skill empowerment. Protect eachother, and value the creatives.
Thank you, Amy 🙏 God bless 🙏
Obama was supposed to close it and didn’t, so we’ll see.
@@cassandra.rose. He got a noble peace prize for not closing it.
Obama a été le président le plus raciste de la planète malgré sa couleur et ses promesses non tenues.@@siewheilou399
He hadn't a hope in hell of closing it with or without the will
@@siewheilou399 Are you sure it was for not closing Gitmo? It seemed it was for escalating the drone attacks on innocent Afghan funerals for those innocents he had killed. "Triple taps" were his legacy.
He was too busy droning villages in the middle east and africa
The world knows the world is wirh Palestine 🇵🇸
Absolutely! 💘
Cristian stand with the chosen people
@@appsreview5698 yeap you stand with white illegal Zionist settlers. And not actual true christians from Palestine. .. great work!
@ synague of Satan
nope the world isn't,. You are dilussional.
free mumia, mutulu and leonard peltier
Thank God, my brothers are free! Now free Afiya Siddiqi!
we paid billions for 10 people? Wouldn’t surprise me
While all throughout the decades the government was certain that these were innocent peoples??? Who does that???. These innocent men, some of them youths were tortured, their lives were damaged irrevocably, their years stolen. This is beyond cruelty
Such a virtuous civilised nation. Unbelievable.
Disgusting !!! America must never preach human rights ever again.
Mind boggling.....what can you do to innocent people to destroy their lives and harm their families, only because you have unbridled power
They should sue for millions.
F’d up world we live in!
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God chose these men to endure extreme conditions. They were not charged with anything? Disturbing… truly disturbing.
Not being charged doesn’t mean they weren’t terrorists.
Without a fair trial we will never know. Hence hold fair trials, the right to defence? ❤@@thealternative9580
@@thealternative9580Innocent until proven guilty.
@@thealternative9580If they were terrorists, they should be charged and tried
Lol...@@thealternative9580
I feel horrible for them. I feel shame for all the administrations who allowed them to stay. I feel shame that I did not do anything to make my voice heard for them.
This is horrible. They should give the men at least 2-3 million each in reparations. Decisionmakers involved in this egregious violation of human rights should go to prison.
One of the many reasons why Day of JUDGEMENT exists and is waiting for all of us. May Allah grant these men barrakah in their lives and grant them immense goodness in this world and the hereafter. Ameen
america means"""PAIN""" IT JUST mean """PAIN"" SO SAD..😢😥😭💔💔❤💚🖤
America you should be ashamed of yourselves but again you’ve done this to black people you have no shame
NOT proud to be American
And to the real owners of the land, the American indigenous people
Spending Soo much money to keep a torture house open and that Only and Only for innocent people.. somebody tell me where is Humanity ??? Absolutely soul-crushing stories about these poor innocent people who have had their lives stolen from them for absolutely Nothing except for a world power justifying starting illegal wars and scape goating innocent people for it.
What about the woman in prison in the USA that has been bounced around from Guantanamo?
Incredibly despicable, shameful,and down right gross, on every level. Im appalled and sad for rhese tortured souls.
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Excellent
Guantanamo sounds a lot like a prison in Israhell... No charges, torture, deprivation.... It's a disgrace.
Please raise voice for the freedom of Dr Aafia siddiqui
I don’t understand how Americans believe Paterson as an intellect😅
I thought I would never see the day when these prisoners would be released and there would be actual concrete talks about the whole massacre of the innocent justice some tribes can make money off of the US military. Now awaiting Afia’s release for being held without cause.
This is so sad and disgusting!!!
This is what I like to hear. Getting results. Free them all
If the United States can do this, why can't Israel do the same?
NO one should be able to do this
Shame on law
Free Lenard Peltier for Christ sake! in addition to many others.
Inhuman and most ridiculous establishment. Only in America, land of free.
Where is UN report on human rights violations of the US? Oh right, they are busy focusing on what women in AFG and Iran do.
Can you imagine the ones who "died" ( klLL3D) without telling their stories?
They’re deprived and were left with dead bodies.
On this channel justice is for all without discrimination and humanity is one without discrimination
is it known if these men were used for studies and research- what is the purpose of keeping innocent people in custody
What kind of country was i born and live in?;I was always told we live in the belly of the beast.Thank God for the morally righteous
A USA flag flying over a torture chamber is SICKENING. Does the symbol of freedom mean free to torture?
In this case, it's a symbol of "freedumb" and the establishment.
Oh this was very informative
Thankfully this decision to close the prison is no longer old sleepy Joe’s prerogative
get outa jail free card
There were no difficulties they just didn't want to release them
Where is our democracy, how about their human & civil rights, sad to see the abuse, is all because they are Arabs. US needs to pay some restitution for their loss of years away from all. Allah'u Akbar 😢❤❤❤
We don’t like Arabs in the west. Get out!
Because they’re Muslim
Not Arabs ,but Muslim. Most were not Arab.
It's not bc they are Arabs. It's bc they are Muslim. There are/were also many Afghan and Pakistani and other non-Arab Muslims in Guantanamo.
America is NOT a democracy its a constitutional republic.