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This is a 2020 follow-up to Rabbani's 2017 Newsweek opinion piece, "Dear President Trump, Close Guantanamo Bay And Give Us A Fair Trial". https://www.newsweek.
by commoner 7y ago
This is a 2020 follow-up to Rabbani's 2017 Newsweek opinion piece, "Dear President Trump, Close Guantanamo Bay And Give Us A Fair Trial".
https://www.newsweek.com/dear-president-trump-close-guantanamo-and-give-us-fair-trial-683080 https://www.newsweek.com/dear-president-trump-close-guantana...
Rabbani previously went on hunger strike in 2017, but Guantanamo's force-feeding prevented him from dying:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/guantanamo-detainee-changed-force-feeding-policy-171115161210148.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/guantanamo-detainee-c...
Further details on Rabbani:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ahmad_Ghulam_Rabbani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ahmad_Ghulam_Rabbani
- commoner 7y agoThe Los Angeles Times also published an op-ed from Rabbani in 2018: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rabbani-guantanamo-prison-torture-20180726-story.html https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-rabbani-guantana...
- bayesian_horse 7y agoTrump approved of torture publicly, but even his people don't seem to let him actually do that.