Allow Guantánamo Bay prisoners to create and share their artwork.

Allow Guantánamo Bay prisoners to create and share their artwork.

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December 8, 2017
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Started by Martin Hurley

The US Department of Defense announced that it would not only prevent artworks from leaving Guantánamo, but that it would also take inmates’ artwork away from them – and might destroy them.  This is very troubling to me and I believe that creating expressions of art is a human right that should be afforded to detainees at Guantánamo,  If prisoners create art works they should be allowed to be shared.  The camp administration has taken away finished artworks from detainees, and camp officials have not allowed art to exit the facility, which was previously permitted. Please help to draw attention to this issue and help these artists share their culturally significant artistic expressions.

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