President Obama began his presidency with a promise to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay within a year. Almost two years later, Guantanamo is still open, and last week the president signed a defense authorization bill that would prevent the administration from using taxpayer funds to transfer terror suspects to the United States for trial.
The United States government says many of the more than 170 men still at Guantanamo are too dangerous to release, but can't be prosecuted either, which leaves an option to establish rules for them that amount to indefinite detention without trial.
The Bush government argued that holding suspected terrorists indefinitely without trial in the prison was the best way to protect innocent citizens. Human Rights campaigners say it is illegal and immoral to hold people without trial.
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arabnews.com/world/article231272.ece www.guardian.co.uk/world/guantanamo-bay www.humanrightsfirst.org/our-work/law-and-security/closegitmo/about/?gclid=CNH05LCPsaYCFSdtgwodRVz..It is proposed that all prisoners in Guatanamo Bay should be tried by an impartial, international court of law asap