Tariq Ba Odah Injustice

There is a great amount of injustices are happening all around us as we speak and we are aware of maybe half of them. For example, In America you have to have been charged with a crime to be in prison. Tariq Ba Odah has been imprisoned since 2002 without charge. Many changes have occurred since his arrest, police injustice towards him, and attempts to close Guantanamo. Tariq Ba Odah may die in Guantanamo if he soon isn’t released. He has been on a hunger strike for eight years now and is in a very unhealthy condition. Tariq Ba Odah’s life before the arrest was as normal as anyone else’s. Ba Odah was born in 1978 in the Shabwah district of Yemen where he lived until the age of one. He spent his early life as a child in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in a beautiful home surrounded by his parents and his many brothers and sisters. Ba …show more content…
It should immediately release him, with all necessary protections. They need to ensure that he receives the medical treatment and other care he requires. On August, 14, 2015 the US department of justice filed its opposition to the petition. The brief written about the case of Tariq Ba Odah it says that his lawyers assert that he “is visibly suffering from the devastating effects of the severe malnutrition and it’s at a serious risk.” It also seeks a judicial order requiring the government to take every necessary and appropriate step to facilitate his immediate release from Guantanamo. The department looks like it will fight having the judge order release of this man. Ba Odah personally thinks that everyone involved in this case are all involved in the same system that keeps him away from his family. He gestures towards the lock on the cell door and says “The men who brought me here on the first day, those are the only ones with power to let me out when it’s my last.” He doesn’t understand why he is still in prison without committing a crime or why no one wants to let him be