2023-09-28 - Close Guantanamo! - European Parliament

Close Guantanamo! This event took place between 9am and 12pm on Thursday 28 September, 2023, in the Manolis Glezos room in the European Parliament’s Spinelli building in Brussels. The most significant gathering ever assembled on Guantanamo in the European Parliament, the event saw speakerspresent first hand testimony about the horrors of the camp and the nightmare that continues for the 16 men who have been approved for release, never convicted of anything, but who have nowhere to go. The event, hosted by Clare Daly & Mick Wallace, is yet a plea for the closure of the detention camp and how the EU and its Member States can assist in finding viable solutions for the relocation of the remaining prisoners to third countries, and the guarantee of decent living conditions for former prisoners wrongfully detained by the US administration for years and then resettled. Speakers: • Mansoor Adayfi, Guantanamo former prisoner • Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo former prisoner • Lakhdar Boumediene, Guantanamo former prisoner • Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism • Beth Jacob, Human Rights Attorney • Alka Pradhan, US Military Commissions Defence Organization • Andy Worthington, Journalist & Activist • Valerie Lucznikowska, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows • James Yee, Guantanamo’s former Muslim Chaplain Chairs • Clare Daly, Member of the European Parliament • Mick Wallace, Member of the European Parliament