HRW urges greater efforts to close Guantanamo
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday urged [press release] President Barack Obama make greater efforts to close Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] despite congressional opposition. In the press release, issued on the eve of the facility’s ninth anniversary in operation [JURIST This Day at Law report], HRW recommended that Obama should escalate efforts to prosecute Guantanamo detainees in federal court or return and resettle them in order to meet US obligations under international law. The rights organization…