{"id":1327,"date":"2011-12-02T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T07:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/02\/exclusive-an-open-letter-to-the-us-congress-from\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:58","slug":"exclusive-an-open-letter-to-the-us-congress-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/02\/exclusive-an-open-letter-to-the-us-congress-from\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: An Open Letter to the US Congress From Members of the British Parliament About Guantanamo | Truthout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/755133686\/exclusive-an-open-letter-to-the-us-congress-from-members-of-the-british-parliament-about-guantanamo-truthout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/755133686\/exclusive-an-open-letter-to-the-us-congress-from-members-of-the-british-parliament-about-guantanamo-truthout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/Y55Kgabk_JZdDZvNJfmLUDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>As a group of elected members of Parliament (MP) from all the main parties represented at Westminster, we are outraged by the current position of the US Congress which, apparently, means that Guantanamo Bay prison will never be closed, and, of particular concern to us, that a British resident who was cleared for release more than two years ago, cannot return here.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/exclusive-open-letter-us-congress\/1322750125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via truth-out.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesAs a group of elected members of Parliament (MP) from all the main parties represented at Westminster, we are outraged by the current position of the US Congress which, apparently, means that Guantanamo Bay prison &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/02\/exclusive-an-open-letter-to-the-us-congress-from\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1125,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/01\/former-guantanamo-prisoner-who-alleged-us-torture\/","url_meta":{"origin":1327,"position":0},"title":"Former Guant\u00e1namo Prisoner Who Alleged US Torture, Drugging, Sentenced by Algerian Authorities | Truthout","author":"aslam","date":"February 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesThe UK action charity Reprieve, whose attorneys represent over a dozen prisoners at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, reports that former Guant\u00e1namo prisoner, Algerian citizen Abdul Aziz Naji, has been sentenced to three years in prison in Algeria. 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