Great satan US arrests activists demanding the closure of Guantanamo

Several protesters were arrested after a demonstration on the 100th day of a hunger strike at Guantanamo prison; protesters filed a petition to the White House with more than 370,000 signatures.

Activists raised banners like “immoral, illegal, ineffective,” and demanded the closure of the Guantanamo Prison.

Protesters with orange jumpsuits and black hoods, like those used on detainees at Guantanamo Bay gathered outside the White House and Richard Killmer, the executive director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture said: “Years of detention without charge or trial have created a sense of desperation and hopelessness among the men at Guantanamo, which has led over 100 of them to join a hunger strike.”

Activists have brandished an effigy of President Barack Obama.

Colonel Morris Davis, a former military prosecutor at Guantanamo, handed over the petition to the White House.

Out of 166 inmates at Guantanamo, 102 are on hunger strike, with 30 being fed through tubes. One inmate is still hospitalized but prison officials say his life is not in danger.

Obama’s promises on the closure of the prison at the beginning of his campaign have not been achieved, moreover; he signed a law last month placing strict restrictions on the transfer of any detainee out of the facility.