Thousands of Syrians have vanished without a trace, forcibly “disappeared”, since the country’s uprising began in March 2011. Held incommunicado by the regime or militant groups at secret locations across the country, detainees are often kept in inhuman conditions. Some are tortured, others go on to be killed. For relatives left behind, the pain of not knowing what has happened to their loved ones is intolerable.
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An American political commentator says Barack Obama has the authority as the president of the United States to close the Guantanamo prison as he believes torture is bad.
“If the Obama administration feels that torture is not in line with US foreign policy, then it should close the Guantanamo Bay camp that is on occupied Cuban territory,” Editor of Pan-African News Wire Abayomi Azikiwe told Press TV on Sunday.
He made the remarks after President Obama acknowledged that the United States tortured some people after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against the country.
“I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong,” Obama told reporters at the White House on Friday.
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