The United States has excluded most law from Guantánamo Bay for decades. It should reverse that position now, and provide medical care for its declining detainees.

The occasion is the latest convening of the Human Rights Committee on the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). A U.S. delegation will face independent United Nations experts on the Committee, tasked with assessing compliance with the ICCPR, who will once again question U.S. treaty violations at Guantánamo Bay. The U.S. presentation provides an opportunity for President Biden to take a significant step forward and recognize the application of international law to the medical needs of an aging detainee population that is fast deteriorating from the effects of torture and harsh conditions.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
    123·
    9 months ago

    Obama had to constantly walk on glass. Every decision, including the color of his suit, was scrutinized.

    We are seeing the non-racist version play out with Biden as the GOP tried to work in a impeachment over… Fucking nothing?

    • Peaty@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      9 months ago

      Not nothing it’s over a vague allusion in an email which I think we can all agree is an absolute smoking gun. After all it says “the big guy” which HAS to be POTUS Biden and couldn’t be any of the list of other guys Hunter was doing business with because as we all know no one has ever used “the big guy” to refer to anyone else /s