1/ This week marks 20 yrs that the prison at #Gitmo has been open & violating the human rights of the hundreds detained there over yrs and the 39 men who remain. Letta Tayler and I wrote about the costs of #Gitmo in a report from Human Rights Watch and The Costs of War Project: watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

In Teen Vogue, Ilhan Omar urges President Donald J. Trump to use the 20th anniversary to finally close Guantanamo. She also calls on young people to educate themselves and their friends on the horrors that occurred there and make their voices heard. teenvogue.com/story/guantana…

TOMORROW: Join us for Guantánamo, Off the Record, to mark the 20th anniversary of the prison’s opening with candid reflections on our work‒the victories, the losses, and everything in between. With Aliya Hussain @katherga1 Wells Dixon Vince Warren RSVP: bit.ly/gitmo-off-reco…

"The continued indefinite detention of Muslims without charge or trial at Guantanamo flies in the face of any promise of “dignity, respect and possibility” the US might hope to offer. "President Biden should summon his own political courage to put an end to it."👏🏽Daphne Eviatar

3/ Here are just some of the costs to rights and the public wrought by the US prison at Guantanamo, which today turned 20, and from the broader "Global War on Terror. My new Human Rights Watch report with Elisa Epstein for The Costs of War Project: hrw.org/news/2022/01/0…. Biden, #CloseGuantamo now.

“My State Department office remains empty. Our longest war has ended, yet Guantanamo endures.” —The last diplomat to head President Obama's efforts to shutter the wartime prison on what it'll take to get the job done. politico.com/news/magazine/…

🚨 BREAKING: we’ve just learned that our client, Abdul Malik Bajabu, has been cleared for release from Guantánamo. This is amazing news. President Biden must begin releasing the uncharged men immediately.

This video is painful confirmation of the harm caused by our government when it killed aid worker Zemari Ahmadi and 9 members of his family, including 7 children, in Kabul last August.

NEW: Syria's largest dam was on a no-strike list. Military engineers warned that hitting it with an airstrike could cause tens of thousands of civilian deaths. But a top secret U.S. Special Operations unit struck it anyway. The story of the Tabqa Dam: nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us/…

TODAY: 50 US Senators & Reps call on President Donald J. Trump to overhaul US counterterrorism policy to center human rights & the protection of civilians: nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us/… Thank you Elizabeth Warren Chris Murphy 🟧 Rep. Ro Khanna & all who signed for your leadership on the protection of civilians.

Come join what promises to be an excellent Friday discussion! I'm excited to learn from the brilliant people who are my fellow panelists⬇️, and share my thoughts on the costs and dangerous consequences of government lies and secrecy in the national security context.

Today, Professor Xiaoxing Xi is challenging the FBI’s baseless arrest and discriminatory profiling of him in a federal appeals court. He is a world-renowned physicist at Temple University, but the U.S. government falsely painted him as a spy.

Since a series of The New York Times investigations last year into U.S. airstrikes and civilian casualties, there have been a number of developments that are worth watching. I'll lay out some of them below.

Honored to represent Sherry Chen in her courageous fight for justice. Today's settlement sends a clear message: profiling and discrimination are unacceptable, and the government will be held to account.