Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney J. Wells Dixon will speak at a virtual webinar organized by the Episcopal Church and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture to mark the 20th anniversary of the day the first detainees were sent to Guantánamo Bay. Many Guantánamo detainees were tortured by the U.S. government, and two decades after the prison opened most of the 39 people imprisoned there have never been charged with or tried for any crime. Join us to discuss why the prison at Guantanamo was opened, the human rights abuses that occurred there, the long-running failure of the military commissions process to provide justice, and what steps we, as people of faith, can take to close the prison for good.

Speakers

Dr. Shaun Casey, Professor at Georgetown University and former Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of State

The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church

Matt Hawthorne, National Religious Campaign Against Torture

J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights