truthout.org — Few people in America have heard of Raul Mingazov, but the residents of Amherst and Leverett know about him because last Nov and in April both towns passed resolutions offering him and another Gitmo detainee a new home. The resolutions also urged Congress to repeal legislation passed last year, preventing any former prisoner from entering the US.
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jleopoldMay 18, 2010Submitter
FTA" "The resolutions were proposed by Amherst resident Ruth Hooke and Leverett resident Elizabeth Adams, Both are members of No More Guantánamos, "a coalition of concerned US residents, communities, organizations and attorneys who are working together to ensure justice for the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram air base in Afghanistan and other offshore prison sites maintained by the CIA and the Pentagon around the world." The organization's Director, Nancy Talanian, explained that the organization's chapters around the country "choose one or two detainees and share the men's stories through events, literature and media to show the public that all Guantánamo detainees are human beings who deserve basic human rights, rather than the monsters that some government officials have described."
grazezeroMay 18, 2010
American politicians paint everybody in Guantanamo as if they were supervillains with some amazing powers beyond mortal man. Fairly horrifying that so many tend to be completely innocent men, tortured, lives ruined.