Gitmo turns 10 - and Obama is in no hurry to close it
On Wednesday this week, protesters outside the White House in Washington will wage a demonstration ten years to the day after a military prison was opened at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. - For a decade, hundreds of men have been held and tortured without charge in one of the biggest breaches of human rights ever conducted by the American government, and also the largest in recent times internationally. Another anniversary for Gitmo will come later this month, however. In less than two weeks on January 22, Americans will remember the three-year anniversary of US President Barack Obama vowing to shut down the prison — a promise that has still gone unfilled.