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January 22, 2010

42 Arrested on Eve of Gitmo Closure Deadline
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Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the group Witness Against Torture held a
protest Thursday on the eve of President Obama’s initial self-imposed
deadline to close Guantanamo Bay. The group says forty-two people were
arrested at the US Capitol after holding a ceremony for three Guantanamo
Bay prisoners whose deaths were initially reported as suicides but now
are speculated to have died from torture. Activists also unfurled
banners reading “Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives.”



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