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Letter asking to close Guantanamo Bay.
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The Hon Alexander Downer MP
Dear Mr Downer
I am writing to ask that you do all in your power to seek the closure of the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Over the past five years, the US has detained over 700 men from over 45 nations in Guantanamo. Despite numerous allegations of torture and ill-treatment, international condemnation, three deaths in custody, several unfavorable court decisions, and not a single conviction of a detainee for any crime, the Bush administration has responded by building more permanent facilities. No amount of permanent structures will make the detentions at Guantanamo lawful - it is time to shut it down.
Guantanamo has come to symbolise US human rights violations committed in the name of the 'war on terror'. People currently in Guantanamo have been subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Some have been subjected to unfair trial proceedings. Some have been rendered to third countries that torture. Still others have been disappeared into secret CIA prisons. By continuing to insist that the United States has the right to detain people indefinitely without access to courts and outside the rule of law, you have also placed Australia squarely on the wrong side of history and in defiance of international law.
Australia was a world leader in the promotion of human rights. Five years of lawlessness is too long. All those detained in Guantanamo should be charged immediately and given a fair trial, or released unconditionally and not sent anywhere where they would face torture or other human rights abuses. It is time we took a stand as a country that upholds human rights and the rule of law.
Please ask the Bush Administration to close Guantanamo Bay and bring about justice for those so unfairly held there.
Yours faithfully
your name here
of (your suburb).
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