So this is 2020...

The 18 th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo is less than two weeks away (January 11).  For the 41 remaining men, one of whom is my client Razak Ali, there is no hope in sight.  Even if Razak were to win his pending appeal the win will ring hollow- it will just mean that he would get another trial with a judge that will never rule in his favor and more years will pass. In the early years Razak would always have a smile on his face. We would discuss with great  intensity the Harry Potter books, both of us laughing at his version of Azkaban.  There is no smile now. There is no laughing. There is only indefinite detention -without any charges ever having been filed against him.