Punjab Study

Lahore: 25 Jan: University of Central Punjab (UCP) Lahore has announced that Amnesty's Petition against Guantanamo Bay signed by 156 Volunteers of University of Central Punjab .
10 years on: End detentions at Guantanamo Bay. On 11 January 2002, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the first detainees were transferred to the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Since then, the detention facility there has made the world’s news headlines for the shocking human rights concerns associated with it - including arbitrary detention, secret detention, torture and other ill-treatment, renditions, and unfair trials.
Ten years on more than 150 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. The majority are in indefinite detention without charge or trial. Those who have been charged face unfair trial by military commission and some can face the death penalty if convicted. The government claims that even those found not guilty can be returned to indefinite detention. There has been essentially no accountability or redress for the human rights violations to which they and other detainees have been subjected.
Human rights concerns in Guantanamo Bay remain an unfinished story. How long before the US government closes the book on Guantanamo and meets its human rights obligations?
AMNESTY launched this petition signing drive on 9th January 2012. UCP’s 156 volunteers signed this international petition to put pressure on the oppressors. Raising voice against violence, torture and oppression equals Jihad.
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