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October 18, 2024

Human Rights Groups Demand Biden Administration Stop Detaining Refugees at Guantánamo
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One hundred twenty-five organizations sent a letter to the Biden
administration asking the U.S. government to end its "diversion and
mistreatment of asylum seekers by exiling them to Guantánamo, out of
reach of their families, advocates, public consciousness - and the law."
The letter was organized by the Haitian Bridge Alliance and the
International Refugee Assistance Project, which found detained asylum
seekers, including children, were being held indefinitely in prison-like
conditions with insufficient healthcare and little access to legal
assistance.


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