Why is Guantanamo still up and running?

THE article “Guantanamo release” (The Mercury, Monday, December 5) refers.

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, where inmates are detained indefinitely without trial, was established by the Bush administration in 2002.

Several inmates were severely tortured in this camp.

The camp is considered a major breach of human rights in many parts of the world. Bush’s successor, President Barack Obama, promised it would be closed during his first campaign in 2008, but still it remains open.

The detention camp stands in defiance of both national (US) and international law.

Internationally, detention practices at Guantanamo remain in violation of several statutes of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a multilateral treaty adopted and enforced by the UN’s General Assembly.

MEDIA DESK Darul Ihsan Centre