1. today marks the 20th anniversary of #Guantanamo: 780 human beings have been detained there in exceptionally cruel conditions,39 of them are still there, like #AhmedRabbani
2. as a journalist, I still remember the excitement when in 2011 we journalists got access to the detainees files thanks to the courage of @xychelsea,Julian #Assange and the #WikiLeaks journalists
3. the cruelty and atrocity of their treatment have deeply shocked me. As a Western citizen, I don't know how to ask these people to pardon us for the cruel, inhuman,brutal treatment they have experienced in our name
4. today I celebrate the great lawyers @justleft, #GarethPeirce,@CliveSSmith,#JoeMargulies and others for their work on the #Guantanamo detainees. It is only thanks to their work that we haven't fully descended into Medioeval barbarity
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