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In this Wednesday, April 17, 2019 photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
Conditions at Guantánamo Bay suddenly got worse after Biden took office, prisoners and advocates told VICE
Jun. 17 - Conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba have rapidly worsened under the Biden administration, prisoners and their advocates told VICE News.
According to the Wednesday report, detainees said they've been denied access to medical care, like aspirin and band-aids, had services restricted, and said guards refuse to speak to them.
Some of the detainees have engaged in a hunger strike to protest their treatment, according to the report.
"How can it be that we are waiting for Biden to come, and it has become so much worse than when Trump was president?" Abdul Latif Nasser, who has been detained at the facility for 19 years, told VICE News through his lawyer.
The change in treatment was "abrupt," Nasser told VICE.
The conditions at the facility have also deteriorated, according to the report, with detainees experiencing broken toilets and burned-out lightbulbs.
President Biden has quietly taken action to begin closing the facility, NBC News reported earlier in June. The facility was created by former President George W. Bush following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. source from
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Conditions at Guantánamo Bay suddenly got worse after Biden took office, prisoners and advocates told VICE
Jun. 17 - Conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba have rapidly worsened under the Biden administration, prisoners and their advocates told VICE News.
According to the Wednesday report, detainees said they've been denied access to medical care, like aspirin and band-aids, had services restricted, and said guards refuse to speak to them.
Some of the detainees have engaged in a hunger strike to protest their treatment, according to the report.
"How can it be that we are waiting for Biden to come, and it has become so much worse than when Trump was president?" Abdul Latif Nasser, who has been detained at the facility for 19 years, told VICE News through his lawyer.
The change in treatment was "abrupt," Nasser told VICE.
The conditions at the facility have also deteriorated, according to the report, with detainees experiencing broken toilets and burned-out lightbulbs.
President Biden has quietly taken action to begin closing the facility, NBC News reported earlier in June. The facility was created by former President George W. Bush following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. source from
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An Updated Tool for Tracking the Detainees of Guantánamo Bay
Watch LIVE: Pres. Joe Biden holds summit with Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin in Geneva (2021)
Jun. 16, 2021
Jun. 16, 2021
US president Joe Biden arrives to board an airplane after the US - Russia summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Geneva Airport
Biden, Putin paper over splits as both claim victories
Biden said the meeting was an important opportunity to lay out the US position face to face
Jun. 17 - ...But concrete accomplishments were hard to define, and both leaders were in vintage form. Shrugging off questions about human rights in Russia, Putin spent much of his post-summit news conference on Wednesday criticising the US over issues ranging from CIA black sites in the early 2000s to the January attack on the US Capitol.
“What about Guantanamo -- it’s still working,” Putin said. “And it doesn’t come under any kind of law, international, American, nothing. CIA prisons which were opened in lots of states and exercised torture, was that human rights?”...
There was never any expectation that the meeting in Geneva would solve the many problems between the US and Russia. The US wants Russia out of Crimea, to end interference in elections abroad, allow democratic debate at home and stop backing strongmen from Belarus to Venezuela. Putin -- whose popularity has fallen amid the Covid-19 crisis and quickening inflation -- wants an end to U.S. sanctions and, less tangibly, to reconfirm the sense that Russia is respected abroad.
On that last point, he got some of what he wanted from Biden, who called Russia a “great power” and a “proud” nation, an improvement from former President Barack Obama’s dismissive reference to Russia being a “regional power.”
The summit was seen as a success in Moscow, said Andrey Kortunov, head of the Kremlin-founded Russian International Affairs Council. “Putin got the recognition he wanted from Biden.”
But Biden also said he couldn’t pass up an opportunity to pressure Putin over human rights and cases such as that of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
“How could I be the president of the United States of America and not speak about the violation of human rights,” Biden said. “That’s why we’re going to raise our concerns about cases like Alexey Navalny.”
Biden said he made clear to Putin that if Navalny dies in prison, “the consequences of that would be devastating for Russia.”
Putin shrugged that off. He faulted the opposition leader for seeking medical treatment abroad -- after he was poisoned, allegedly by state security services -- and compared democracy protests led by Navalny to violence at some anti-racism demonstrations in the US last year, saying he didn’t want Black Lives Matter-type disturbances brought to his country.
He also gently warned Biden that new sanctions would lead to “another missed opportunity” for the US... quoted from
Biden, Putin paper over splits as both claim victories
Biden said the meeting was an important opportunity to lay out the US position face to face
Jun. 17 - ...But concrete accomplishments were hard to define, and both leaders were in vintage form. Shrugging off questions about human rights in Russia, Putin spent much of his post-summit news conference on Wednesday criticising the US over issues ranging from CIA black sites in the early 2000s to the January attack on the US Capitol.
“What about Guantanamo -- it’s still working,” Putin said. “And it doesn’t come under any kind of law, international, American, nothing. CIA prisons which were opened in lots of states and exercised torture, was that human rights?”...
There was never any expectation that the meeting in Geneva would solve the many problems between the US and Russia. The US wants Russia out of Crimea, to end interference in elections abroad, allow democratic debate at home and stop backing strongmen from Belarus to Venezuela. Putin -- whose popularity has fallen amid the Covid-19 crisis and quickening inflation -- wants an end to U.S. sanctions and, less tangibly, to reconfirm the sense that Russia is respected abroad.
On that last point, he got some of what he wanted from Biden, who called Russia a “great power” and a “proud” nation, an improvement from former President Barack Obama’s dismissive reference to Russia being a “regional power.”
The summit was seen as a success in Moscow, said Andrey Kortunov, head of the Kremlin-founded Russian International Affairs Council. “Putin got the recognition he wanted from Biden.”
But Biden also said he couldn’t pass up an opportunity to pressure Putin over human rights and cases such as that of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny.
“How could I be the president of the United States of America and not speak about the violation of human rights,” Biden said. “That’s why we’re going to raise our concerns about cases like Alexey Navalny.”
Biden said he made clear to Putin that if Navalny dies in prison, “the consequences of that would be devastating for Russia.”
Putin shrugged that off. He faulted the opposition leader for seeking medical treatment abroad -- after he was poisoned, allegedly by state security services -- and compared democracy protests led by Navalny to violence at some anti-racism demonstrations in the US last year, saying he didn’t want Black Lives Matter-type disturbances brought to his country.
He also gently warned Biden that new sanctions would lead to “another missed opportunity” for the US... quoted from
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo as an acronym, by the U.S. military[1]) is a United States military base located on 45 square miles (117 km2) of land and water[2] on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba. It was first leased by the United States for use as a coaling station and naval base in 1903 and is the oldest overseas U.S. naval base.[3] The lease was $2,000 in gold per year until 1934, when the payment was set to match the value in gold in dollars;[4] in 1974, the yearly lease was set to $4,085.[5]
Since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Cuban communist government has consistently protested against the U.S. presence on Cuban soil and called it "illegal" under international law, alleging that the base "was imposed on Cuba by force." Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, for alleged unlawful combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places during the War on terror.[6] Cases of torture of prisoners[7] by the U.S. military, and their denial of protection under the Geneva Conventions, have been criticized. from Wikipedia
Since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Cuban communist government has consistently protested against the U.S. presence on Cuban soil and called it "illegal" under international law, alleging that the base "was imposed on Cuba by force." Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, for alleged unlawful combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places during the War on terror.[6] Cases of torture of prisoners[7] by the U.S. military, and their denial of protection under the Geneva Conventions, have been criticized. from Wikipedia
俄美峰會提前落幕，老手PK好對手，“普拜會”為俄美關係定調？
Jun 17, 2021
俄羅斯總統普京與美國總統拜登在瑞士日內瓦舉行的俄美峰會已經落幕。首場的普拜會，哪個人的表現更勝一籌？持續3個多小時會談，為何比原定的5小時少了一個多小時結束？俄美為何不召開聯合記者會？普京和拜登獨自召開的記者會又對首次“普拜會”有怎樣的表述？這次峰會對未來俄美兩國關係定下怎樣的基調？今天的節目中，我們將請何亮亮先生為我們深入分析與點評。
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