The U.S. government has cleared Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner for release. Hassan bin Attash has been jailed by the U.S. for the last 20 years, even though has never been charged with a crime. He was just 17 years old when he was captured in Karachi by Pakistani security services in 2002 and turned over to the United States. Attorneys say Attash was tortured by the U.S. and its allies for up to 12 hours a day over a two-year period, including at a CIA black site. The Biden administration says Attash will remain at the Guantánamo Bay prison while it tries to find a country willing to offer him rehabilitation.

The fact that there are people willing to torture someone for hours, guilty or not, should concern you about the governments of the US and its allies. No one tortures out of the good of their heart, and victims of US government torture have said that people doing the torturing are sadistic about it--even taking pictures. Look into the Abu Ghraib torture cases.