“Mr. President, you marked your first day in the White House by ordering the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison.But in our country, many Guantanamos exist, only our Guantanamos are home to students, women’s rights activists, labor organizers, political activists,and journalists. We, as former student activists who spent time in Iranian prisons under inhumane conditions, call on you and all those who defend human rights, freedom and equality to express solidarity to the people of Iran as they wage their struggle for freedom.”
