A WAR ON TERROR – AND WE AREN’T WINNING… GET RID OF GUANTANAMO BAY.

Thank you for showing an interest in my blog. My name is Georgia and I feel very strongly about torture and wrongly imprisoning people under false accusations and suspicion.

For over a decade, Guantanamo Bay Prison – known as Gitmo – has been the living place of many innocent people across the globe falsely accused and wrongly detained.  Of those many detainees, only one has ever been given a trial.  Many people may think they are aware of the issues of Guantanamo Bay Prison, but are they really?


The events of September 11th 2001 struck terror in the hearts and minds of the Americans. The whole world was stuck in an age of fear, and they feared for their own countries.
And then America went in search of terrorists. They took people from countries like Afghanistan and Iraq – and in January 2002 the first detainees were transferred.
Amnesty International is a pressure group that fights for human rights’ and fights against violations of human rights’ across the world.

Guantanamo Bay Prison is a huge violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Article 1 states, “We are all born free and equal. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We shall all be treated in the same way. We shall treat each other with respect.”
Article 2, “These rights belong to everybody whatever our differences.”
Article 3, “We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety.”
Article 5, “Nobody has the right to hurt us or torture us.”
Article 7, “The law is the same for everyone.  It must treat us all fairly.”

And the most important of all regarding this issue:

Article 9, “Nobody has the right to put us in prison without good reason, to keep us there or to send us away from our country.”

These are just a small portion of the laws and Human Rights’ forbidding the use of Guantanamo Bay Prison.

And yet it continues.
Some people held in Guantanamo Bay may be guilty of terrorism, but many are innocent, and are being held there as a scapegoat, under false accusations and false suspicion. Many innocent people are being torn away from their families because of some false suspicion; a paranoia, that they are a terrorist.
Also I believe that torture when interrogating people is incredibly wrong. Not only is physical abuse mentally scarring and degrading and horrible to endure, but detainees get mentally abused too - deprived of natural light for days on end, being told their spouse was next door being tortured.
This is all that Amnesty International aims to prevent – to protect innocent people from the horrors of Guantanamo Bay.

Please help Amnesty International. Protect The Human.

Thank you for reading my blog. Please post a response with your thoughts on Guantanamo Bay. It would also be great if you could answer these questions for me:

-Have you heard of Guantanamo Bay before?
-Do you disagree with the treatment people are given there?
-Would you now be willing to sign a petition supporting the idea of closing Guantanamo Bay?