The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Monday proposed a 13-point plan to close Guantánamo Bay prison. Co-chairs Claire Finkelstein and Harvey Rishikof complied a diverse analysis of the prison to create a proposal that is both comprehensive and nonpartisan. The knotty legal and policy issues raised by the Guantánamo military commissions will be the subject of study for law reviews, dissertations, and reports for decades to come. Scrutiny and public dissapproval of Guantánamo Bay has increased in the past decade. The prison costs over $540 million each year to operate, and legal experts question if the US has the authority to detain uncharged inmates after the US withdrew troops from Afghanistan in 2021.

Source: The Guardian September 13, 2022 15:06 UTC