Witness Against Torture launched a 100 days campaign to close Guantanamo starting with the inauguration day 2009 to pressure the new administration to close Guantanamo.
Along with campaign partners like the Center for Constitutional Rights and September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, they demand:
- Close the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba within the first 100 days of the new administration. Prisoners currently held at Guantánamo should either be charged with a crime and prosecuted in U.S. Federal Court, or released with a repatriation plan that permits the detainee either to return to his home country or to receive asylum in a third country.
- Close other U.S. detention centers worldwide that do not comply with international human rights standards, including: Bagram Airforce Base in Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib in Iraq, and the so-called CIA "black sites" around the world.
"We're going to close Guantánamo. And we're going to restore habeas corpus. We're going to lead by example by not just word but by deed. That's our vision for the future." - Barak Obama, June 2007
"I believe we should close Guantánamo and work with our allies to forge a new international understanding on the disposition of dangerous detainees under our control." - John McCain, March 2008
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