WHEREAS the practice of holding people in the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base detention center (hereafter referred to as “Guantánamo Bay detention center”)  represents the continuation of a repudiated foreign policy and stain upon the character of the United States; and

WHEREAS over 100 of the 166 remaining prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay detention center have been on hunger strike for over 98 days to protest the lack of basic human and legal rights as outlined by the U.S. Constitution and international law; and

WHEREAS, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention) defines torture as: