Breaking news: The U.S. had arranged for 11 men to leave Guantanamo for Oman last fall, but the deal was called off because of pressure from Congressional Democrats after October 7:
Andy Worthington, on CloseGuantanamo.org, reports
Thanks to NBC News, and the four anonymous U.S. government officials who spoke to them, for exposing the latest scandal
involving the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay — the refusal of the Biden
administration to release eleven men, for whom long months of
negotiation had secured a safe and viable resettlement option, because
of the perceived “political optics” of freeing them after the attacks on
Israel by Hamas and other militants on October 7.
It’s important that the global vigils to Close Guantanamo NOW are continuing every first Wednesday. Join in on June 5 and July 3 across the U.S. in Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, NYC and Detroit among others, and in London, Mexico City and Brussels. See Andy’s article here for a report and photo from last month’s vigils.