Calls Grow for Biden to Close Guantánamo Military Prison as U.S. Sanctions Cuba over Human Rights

As the United States imposes new Cuba sanctions, citing human rights abuses, we look at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a notorious gulag that President Biden himself has called an advertisement for creating terror." This month, the first Guantanamo Bay prisoner to be released under the Biden administration, Abdul Latif Nasser, returned to his home country of Morocco after nearly two decades of being held without charge even though he was cleared for release in 2016. There are 39 other prisoners still at Guantanamo, nearly two decades after the start of the U.S. war on terror. To discuss efforts to close the notorious prison and repatriate the remaining detainees, we are joined by Nasser's lawyer Mark Maher of Reprieve and Gary Thompson, lawyer for former Guantanamo prisoner Ravil Mingazov, who is currently being held in a UAE prison after being released from Guantanamo in 2017, where he was held without charge for 15 years. If there was ever a right and just time to be releasing these men, this is the time to do it," says Maher.