The\u00a0Guant\u00e1namo\u00a0detainees\u00a0are even more isolated in these days of Covid-19. The International Red Cross is no longer making regular visits, and attorney visits have been greatly cut back due to the need to quarantine at either end of a visit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Click here<\/a> to sign up to write a letter to a prisoner. A letter template is provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From a recent piece<\/a> in Just Security<\/em>: The\u00a0Guant\u00e1namo\u00a0detainees\u00a0are even more isolated in these days of Covid-19. The International Red Cross is no longer making regular visits, and attorney visits have been greatly cut back due to the need to quarantine at either end of a visit. Click here to sign up to write a letter to a prisoner. A letter template is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Many of the 40 men are torture survivors, some of them formerly disappeared at \u201cblack sites\u201d before being sent to Guantanamo. All of them have been exposed to the\u00a0physical and psychological trauma<\/a>\u00a0associated with prolonged indefinite detention. They are also aging rapidly and\u00a0increasingly exhibiting<\/a>\u00a0complex medical conditions that staff at Guantanamo are not equipped to manage, such as severe coronary vascular disease, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injury. Any condition that requires magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized tomography (CT scans), or cardiac catheterization cannot be treated adequately at the detention facility. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"