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As Gitmo Prisoners Revolt, Obama Admin Challenged on Indefinite Detention at OAS Hearing

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Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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http://www.democracynow.org - As more than 100 Guantánamo Bay prisoners enter the fifth week of their hunger strike, the Obama administration has defended their detention at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A number of prisoners have been held without charge for more than 11 years and more than half have been cleared for release. Attorneys for the prisoners told the hearing that the lack of hope for release among those who do not face charges has created a climate of despair. The senior adviser for Guantánamo policy countered that the Obama administration is working within restrictions imposed by Congress to transfer prisoners out of the prison as part of an effort to close the facility -- one of President Obama's original campaign promises. We speak to Kristine Huskey, director of the Anti-Torture Program for Physicians for Human Rights and one of the first attorneys to represent Guantánamo detainees. The author of  "Justice at Guantánamo: One Woman's Odyssey and Her Crusade for Human Rights," Huskey testified at Tuesday's hearing. We're also joined by Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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