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Guantanamo at 20: ‘A global symbol of American injustice, torture and abuse of power’

By France24
15 January 2022   |   2:09 pm
On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the US' first detainees at Guantanamo Bay, DW spoke about the situation with a human rights expert as well as the man tasked with closing the prison back in 2013.

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