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Gitmo Clock 2021 photos

Photos of Close Guantánamo supporters on Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison, calling on Joe Biden to close the prison when he takes office.

This page features photos of supporters, throughout 2021, holding up posters showing how long the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open, and urging Joe Biden to close it without further delay, starting with 6,941 days on Jan. 11, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison, and continuing with 6,950 days on Jan. 20, the day of Joe Biden's inauguration, 7,000 days on Mar. 11, 7,100 days on Jun. 19, and 7,115 days on July 4, U.S. Independence Day.

Throughout the rest of the year, we also have posters marking 7,200 days (on Sep. 27), and, into 2022, 7,300 days (on Jan. 5, 2022), and 7,306 days on Jan. 11, 2022, the 20th anniversary of the prison's opening, and a day that no one with any decency and respect for the law wants to see. Spanish posters are also available here, via the World Can't Wait.

Please feel free to take a photo with some — or all — of the photos, and send them to us at info@closeguantanamo.org.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi, in Serbia, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay. Check out Mansoor's recent interview on Democracy Now! here.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Close Guantánamo co-founder Andy Worthington says to Joe Biden, "You’ve now been President for eight months, and yet you’ve done next to nothing to move towards the closure of Guantánamo — just one prisoner has been released, ten men approved for release and 17 'forever prisoners' are still held, and 12 men are still caught up in a broken trial system. It’s just over three months until the 20th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, when the eyes of the world will be on you, and many people will want to know why it’s still open. Please do what is required, and close it as soon as possible."

Cast members and the director of a new feature film "I Am Gitmo," to be released in 2022, mark 7,200 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay on Sept. 27, 2021, and call on President Biden to close it without further delay. As producer Beth Portello explains, "Inspired by the declassified legal hearings of Guantánamo detainees, the film revolves around an Egyptian man living in Afghanistan who is kidnapped from his home and delivered to the CIA under suspicion of terrorism, sent to Bagram where he is brutally interrogated and tortured, then flown to Guantanamo Bay, and subjected to more torture as an 'enemy combatant.'" The film is written and directed by Philippe Diaz, and stars Egyptian actor Sammy Sheik (America Sniper, Transformers: Dark of the Moon), Eric Pierpoint (Liar, Liar, The World’s Fastest Indian) and Paul Kampf (Imprisoned). This photo features, from left to right, Abraham Khanian, Faizan Sheikh, Sammy Sheik, Philippe Diaz, Mico Saad and Ali Maqsood.

This second photo from the new feature film "I Am Gitmo" features, from left to right, Eric Pierpoint, Sammy Sheik, Chico Brown and Philippe Diaz.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Natalia Rivera Scott, in Mexico City, says, "Too many days. No laws in Guantánamo or in Washington where the war criminals guilty of implementing the torture programs are free and without accountability. Release the 39 men still there, cause they shouldn’t be 'forever prisoners', they’re forever human beings."

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Kay Schuetze, in Pinneberg, Germany, says, "Thank you for your effort and commitment. So much has been said about this prison and I can't believe they still haven't closed it. Act now!"

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and E. Wayles Browne, Professor of Linguistics (retired from Cornell University) calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Theresa Alt, of Ithaca, New York calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and, in Massachusetts, Nancy Talanian of No More Guantanamos calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Richard Clare, one of Close Guantánamo co-founder Andy Worthington’s bandmates in The Four Fathers, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay. Check out The Four Fathers’ song "Close Guantanamo" here.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Bren Horstead, one of Close Guantánamo co-founder Andy Worthington’s bandmates in The Four Fathers, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay. Check out The Four Fathers’ song "Close Guantanamo" here.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and British campaigner Dave Esbester calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Susan McLucas in Somerville, Massachusetts says, "Biden promised to close Guantanamo. Will this be one more empty promise? This place has to be closed down and given back to Cuba!"

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and William Hudon, a history professor at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Marking 7,200 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay on Sept. 27, 2021, Dave Parker, in the U.S., says of the campaign, "Thank you so much for your steadfast efforts to close Guantánamo."

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Michele Mattingly in Berkeley, California calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Ed Charles, the editor of the World Can’t Wait’s Spanish website, in Oakland, California, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Dorrine Marshall in Irvine, California says to President Biden, "NO immigrant detention center in this hell hole of torture and depravity. CLOSE GUANTANAMO NOW!!!"

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Albert Valencia in Irvine, California says to President Biden, "CLOSE GUANTANAMO NOW!"

Today, Sept. 27, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,200 days, and Robert Kolkebeck in Park Forest, Illinois says, "I see how much I have aged in 7,200 days and don’t even want to think about what Guantánamo imprisonment has done to all detained there. I wonder how many more are unjustly held elsewhere by the controllers in the Land of the Free … and for how many days."

On Sept. 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, our co-founder Andy Worthington noted that the last remaining example of the brutality and lawlessness of the "war on terror" launched by the Bush administration in response to the attacks is the prison at Guantánamo Bay, where 39 men are still imprisoned, mostly held indefinitely without charge or trial.
Andy's message to President Biden was: "Please close the prison at Guantánamo Bay without further delay. Release the 27 men who have never been charged with a crime, and move the trials of the ten men who have been charged — including the five men allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks — to federal court, bringing to an end the broken military commission system, which is incapable of delivering justice. You can do this. It is the right thing to do, and the history books will remember you as the president who brought this shamefully long-standing example of U.S. injustice to an end."

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Former prisoner Mansoor Asayfi calls on President Biden to close it without further delay. Mansoor is the author (with Antonio Aiello) of an extraordinary memoir about his experiences, "Don't Forget Us Here," which will be published by Hachette Books in August, and which we can't recommend highly enough.

For U.S. Independence Day on July 4, with the prison at Guantánamo Bay open for 7,115 days, Habiba Elmowaled calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Michele Mattingly in Berkeley, California calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, July 4, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days, and our co-founder Andy Worthington says, "As the United States marks Independence Day, and celebrates the freedom from executive tyranny that was first marked on this day in 1776, I encourage President Biden to remember that for the last 19 years the U.S. has, hypocritically, been engaged in its own executive tyranny at Guantánamo, holding men indefinitely without charge or trial. On this, Biden’s first July the Fourth as president, I ask him to close Guantánamo as swiftly as possible, to bring to an end this shameful hypocrisy."

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Mélanie Castro from France calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Kate Villarin calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. William Hudon, a history professor at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania says, "President Biden, just as Frederick Douglass decried the double standard that left slaves without civil rights in his famous 1852 speech, 'What to the slave is the Fourth of July?,' so the prisoners at Guantánamo have every reason to cry out against the double standard that keeps them in confinement. They might well ask, 'What to the Guantánamo prisoner is the Fourth of July?' Despite being on U.S. soil, they are held under the same sort of tyrannical authority against which the founders of this nation rebelled in 1776. How can we celebrate under these circumstances? SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO NOW!"

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Lisa Stallbaumer-Beishline, a history professor at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Elizabeth Dowd of Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Majid Nasim Ahmad calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Susan McLucas in Somerville, Massachusetts says, "It is absolutely insane that Guantánamo is still open! This stain on our country’s reputation must be closed right away! As we celebrate our 'proud history,' let’s create a country we can be proud of."

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Steve Lane in Bethesda, Maryland says, "Dear President Biden, seventeen of the 40 men detained at Guantánamo Bay are forever prisoners, who have never been tried, because there is little or no evidence against them. We detain them because we fear what they might do in the future, not because they are guilty of a crime. We fought a war against Great Britain to free ourselves from that sort of injustice. Our Constitution forbids it for U.S. citizens. That's why 24 U.S. Senators were right when they said, in a letter to you: 'As a symbol of lawlessness and human rights abuses, the detention facility continues to harm U.S. national security by serving as a propaganda tool for America’s enemies and continues to hinder counterterrorism efforts and cooperation with allies.' Please do all you can to close that national shame."

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Ed Charles in Los Angeles, the editor of the World Can't Wait's Spanish website, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Dorrine Marshall in Irvine, California says, "This disgusting and shameful prison must be closed NOW."

Today, July 4, is U.S. Independence Day, and the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,115 days. Albert Valencia in Irvine, California calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Dorrine Marshall says, "Even our cat Misty wants it closed!"

Marking 7,100 days of Guantánamo's existence on June 19, 2021, former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and our co-founder Andy Worthington says, "President Biden, you have now been president for 150 days, and yet no one, to date, has been freed from Guantánamo, even though eleven of the 40 men still held have been approved for release by high-level government review processes, five of them on your watch. Please appoint a Special Envoy for Guantánamo Closure as soon as possible, to arrange for the release of these men, and follow up with concrete and realistic proposals for the prison’s closure."

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Jan Strain, a longtime supporter of the Close Guantánamo campaign, in Seattle, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Salah Med in Mauritania calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Susan McLucas in Somerville, Massachusetts calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Natalia Rivera Scott in Mexico City calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Michele Mattingly in Berkeley, California calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Dorrine Marshall in Irvine, California calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and William Hudon, Professor of History at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania says, "President Biden — PLEASE listen to the members of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. PLEASE listen to the twenty-four U.S. Senators who sent you a joint letter on this topic in mid-April. Please SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO!"

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Diana Murtaugh Coleman of Northern Arizona University calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Don E. Walicek of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Ed Charles, the editor of the World Can't Wait's Spanish website, in Los Angeles, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay via one of the group's Spanish posters.

Today, June 19, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,100 days, and Robert Kolkebeck in Park Forest, Illinois calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and former prisoner, torture victim and best-selling author Mohamedou Ould Slahi urges President Biden to close it without further delay. As he says, "We demand that injustice be lifted." We're delighted that Mohamedou's story is getting so much attention right now, because of the recent release of "The Mauritanian," a powerful adaptation of his compelling memoir, "Guantánamo Diary," starring Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Larry Siems, the editor of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's "Guantánamo Diary," urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Steve Wood, Mohamedou Ould Slahi's former guard at Guantánamo, whose friendship with Mohamedou is celebrated in a new Guardian film, "My Brother's Keeper," urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Sumer Wood, the daughter of Steve Wood, who was Mohamedou Ould Slahi's guard, calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Baba Mohamed Nejib in Mauritania calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Alli Jarrar, North America Campaigner with Amnesty International, says, "March 11 marked 7,000 whole days that Guantánamo has been open. 40 Muslim men remain there today. Many have been tortured, most never charged with any crime. President Biden must close it immediately: transfer the men cleared for release now, and give fair trials to the rest."

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Natalia Rivera Scott in Mexico City urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Anna Fauzy-Ackroyd in the U.K. urges President Biden to close it without further delay. She says, "May this proceed without delay and 2021 see Guantánamo's final closure."

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Close Guantánamo co-founder Andy Worthington says, "President Biden, you know how shameful it is that the U.S., which claims to respect the rule of law, has been running a prison for 7,000 days in which the majority of the men still held are held indefinitely without charge or trial. That's what dictatorships do, so please make it a priority to get this disgraceful prison closed."

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Diana Murtaugh Coleman of Northern Arizona University urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Don E. Walicek of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and William Hudon, Professor of History at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA, urges President Biden to close it without further delay. See his article here.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Steve Lane, in Bethesda, Maryland says, "Dear President Biden: You have the opportunity to begin to undo the wrongs our country has done at Guantánamo Bay. No one can fully compensate the men imprisoned there for the decades wrongfully taken away from them, but releasing those who have been approved for release would be a step. Trying those who have spent a significant part of their life locked up at Guantánamo, despite never having been charged with a crime, would be another. Please do both, and show the world that America has not forgotten our ideal of Liberty and Justice for All."

Jan Meslin sent this photo of the Orange County Peace Coalition's online monthly meeting, at which people held up our posters marking 7,000 shameful days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Susan Hall in Colorado calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Tom Hall in Colorado calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Jess Hope in Wales says, "7000 days. I still remember the first ever images and propaganda coming out of Guantánamo. My heart seriously constricted, and has had that feeling ever since. I keep bringing Guantánamo quietly to my Amnesty Group, that I joined because of Guantánamo and Shaker Aamer. This terrible hardness of some of humanity has, however, brought me into contact with some beautiful people."

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Tony Hope in Wales calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Majid Nasim Ahmad in Pakistan calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Imad Aljem in the U.K. calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Bernie Sullivan in Dorset, says, "7,000 long long days of pointless suffering. George W Bush opened it, Barack Obama tried to close it but failed. Donald Trump wanted to refill it. Now it is time for President Joe Biden to close this monstrous example of hypocrisy for good. Only then will he be able to begin the work of restoring the reputation of the USA as a leader of the democratic world."

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Bernie Sullivan in Dorset, in the U.K., calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Dorrine Marshall, in Irvine, California urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Albert Valencia, in Irvine, California urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and in Los Angeles Ed Charles, the editor of the World Can't Wait's Spanish website, urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Michele Mattingly, in Berkeley, California urges President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Kate Sherringer from Cardigan and North Pembrokeshire Amnesty Group calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

For March 11, marking 7,000 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Shaun Donovan from Cardigan and North Pembrokeshire Amnesty Group calls on President Biden to close it without further delay.

Today, Mar. 11, 2021, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 7,000 days, and Robert Kolkebeck in Park Forest, Illinois says, "About 46 years after FDR locked up Japanese-Americans, Reagan apologised. In 1993 Clinton apologized to Hawaiians for the U.S. overthrow of their monarchy 100 years earlier. In 2010 Obama signed an apology to Native Americans. As we know too well, President Biden can act meaningfully NOW by attempting an apology to all who have been held at Guantánamo AND securing a safe release to all who are still held. We treat stray cats better than these human beings."

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and Farrah Hassen, an adjunct professor teaching international law in Southern California, sent this photo and the following compelling reasons for her participation in the campaign. She says, "I make it a point to teach my students about Guantánamo prison when I get to the subject of international humanitarian law so that they can learn about this legal black hole and demand an end to it and future legal black holes. For many, it feels like the first time learning about the issue, given how young they were during the 9/11 attacks. I was a college student at that time, and still remember my fear (especially as an Arab and Muslim-American) of a national security state determined to thwart terrorism at all costs, regardless of the consequences to the rule of law and rights of people. My students learn about Guantánamo’s post 9/11 origins and read the seminal cases, including Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Without fail, they have been shocked and horrified by the various human rights abuses at Gitmo and related breaches of international humanitarian law. I show them videos and photos with disclaimers about the disturbing content, and share the perspectives of prisoners who have survived their ordeal. They have rightfully questioned why the prison remains opens, despite former President Obama’s call to shut it down, and wonder when the remaining prisoners cleared for release will ever return to what they once called home. They have analyzed and read the Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocol 1, Convention against Torture, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In so doing, they are reminded of the promises of international law, and the continued challenges to its enforcement by states flagrantly violating their treaty obligations — exemplified by the United States’ continued operation of Gitmo. For all these reasons, I strongly support the work of Close Guantánamo, and attach a photo of myself demanding that the incoming Biden administration immediately close this prison once and for all."

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi calls on him to close the prison without further delay.

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and our co-founder Andy Worthington says, "Congratulations on your inauguration, President Biden, but now you own Guantánamo. 12 long years ago, you were Barack Obama’s vice president when he promised to close it, but failed to do so. There can be no more excuses. This wretched prison is an affront to all the values you claim to hold dear, and to keep it open would make you a hypocrite. Appoint a senior official with responsibility for its closure as soon as possible, and let’s get it closed by this time next year."

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and, in Somerville, MA, Susan McLucas says, "I hope Biden makes good on Obama’s promise to close Guantánamo. He can start with the six men who’ve been cleared for release, most of them for years."

Marking 6,950 days of the existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay on Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, Sayed Chowdhury in Australia sent this photo with his sons, calling on Joe Biden to close the prison without further delay.

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and William Hudon, Professor of History at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA, calls on him to close the prison without further delay.

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and Steve Lane says, “Dear President Biden, you have the opportunity to right a grievous wrong. It should be obvious — bring justice to the men we have imprisoned for decades at Guantánamo Bay.”

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and Natalia Rivera Scott, in Mexico City, calls on him to close the prison without further delay.

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and, in Maloy, Iowa, peace campaigner Brian Terrell calls on him to close the prison without further delay.

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and, in Los Angeles, Ed Charles, the editor of the World Can’t Wait’s Spanish website (with a Spanish poster), calls on him to close the prison without further delay.

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and, in California, Dorrine Marshall calls on him to close the prison without further delay.

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and, in California, Albert Valencia calls on him to close the prison without further delay.

Today, Jan. 20, 2021, the day of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, the prison at Guantánamo Bay has been open for 6,950 days, and, in Park Forest, Illinois, Robert Kolkebeck says, "The Democrats are in control of congress and the White House. Let's see them show us they're a little different from Trump and the GOP."

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Susan McLucas, in Somerville, MA, says, "I am so ashamed of my country, letting Guantánamo remain in place so long. If we can't charge and try people, we have to let them go! It will be generations before our reputation will recover from this."

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Close Guantánamo co-founder Andy Worthington says, "Joe Biden, the world is watching. In nine days’ time, when you take over from Donald Trump, the shame that is Guantánamo will be your responsibility, and you must finish what President Obama tried but failed to do when you were his Vice President — close Guantánamo once and for all. It is doable. You have control of Congress; all you need now is the political will to do the right thing, and to remove this terrible stain on the US’s efforts to portray itself as a country that respects the rule of law."

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, James Yee, the former Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo, who was imprisoned on baseless charges of being a spy in 2003-04, urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Nancy Murray, in the U.S., urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Steve Lane, in Bethesda, Maryland, says, "President-elect Biden, in a few days you will have the opportunity to put a stop to the 19 years of suffering we have inflicted on the men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, without trial or even charge. Please close that symbol of injustice as soon as you can."

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Natalia Rivera Scott, in Mexico City (with a Spanish poster), urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Ed Charles in Los Angeles (also with a Spanish poster) urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Ken Jones of Witness Against Torture urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, William Hudon, Professor of History at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA, urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Brian Terrell urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time, and says, "Friends, at Andy’s request, my photo taken in Maloy, Iowa USA."

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Judith Kelly, in Arlington, Virginia, urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Timothy Lind, in Three Rivers, MI, urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Dorrine Marshall, in California, urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Albert Valencia, in California, urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.

On Jan. 11, 2021, the 19th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Robert Kolkebeck in Park Forest, Illinois urges President-elect Joe Biden to close it without further delay when he takes office in nine days' time.