Free the art from Guantánamo! SIGN THE LETTER TO BIDEN.
Dear friends and supporters,
Six weeks ago, we published an article — folllowing up on a BBC World article — about an outrageous ban on prisoners’ artwork being allowed to leave Guantánamo, which was imposed five years ago, under Donald Trump, and has not been dropped by President Biden.
The ban was imposed after the Pentagon responded with unacceptable hysteria to an exhibition of prisoners’ artwork at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and immediately led to prisoners no longer being allowed to give their artwork to their attorneys — and, via them, to their families.
This was nothing less than cruel, as art had become a lifeline for many of the men held, but the ban’s damage has now become even more worrying, because some of the men still held are prolific artists, and, having been approved for release since President Biden took office, are facing eventual release from the prison without being able to take any of their artwork with them.
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The letter is available online here, and is open for signatures by
other supporters, to add to those of the former prisoners. Our co-founders,
Andy and Tom Wilner, have signed it, and Andy also secured the support of the
musician Roger Waters, who is a long-term supporter of the Close Guantánamo
campaign.
(read the rest of the article here.
(read the rest of the article here.
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