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– This is really our goal and our intention, says White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki in response to the question of whether the high-security prison should be closed before the end of the period.
It is the US National Security Council that, in close cooperation with the country’s Department of Defense, State Department, and Justice, will investigate how a lockdown can be implemented.
But serious political and legal obstacles are likely to put an end to the initiative. President Barack Obama did not keep his promise to close the detention center, and his successor, Donald Trump, decided that Guantanamo would continue to operate. The head of the facility said in 2018 that it would be open for at least another 25 years.
40 people are still detained at Guantánamo. Most of them have been locked up for almost two decades without ever being brought to justice, but they have been deemed too dangerous to be released.
The prison was formed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during the so-called “war on terrorism” by the United States. The prison housed people who had been captured by US soldiers but who the United States did not consider prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention. The prison and the torture-like interrogation methods used there have been harshly criticized by, among others, human rights organizations.
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