Rule of Law Committee:
On the 21st anniversary of the Guantánamo detention facility last month, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows (PT) helped gather endorsements and joined 158 other organizations urging President Biden to prioritize closing Guantánamo and ending indefinite detention. Early this month there were two exciting developments concerning Guantánamo. On February 2, Majid Khan, whose case PT had supported with an amicus brief, was resettled to Belize, where his family will join him. That same day, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism announced that she will be visiting the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as part of a trip to the U.S. beginning February 6. In a press statement PT praised the Special Rapporteur’s office and the Biden Administration for working together to make her visit possible, and expressed hope her work can inform a path forward to judicial finality for family members, the accused, and all those affected by 9/11 and its aftermath. |