The inmates, which include Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, cite poor conditions in the D.C. Facility, as well as mistreatment by guards, as their reasons for wanting to serve out the remainder of their imprisonment at Gitmo.
, who were charged with assaulting law enforcement officers during the Capitol breach. Another inmate who signed the letter Troy Smocks was sentenced to 14 months in jail for social media posts encouraging Jan. 6 protesters to “prepare our weapons” and “hunt these cowards down like the Traitors that each of them are. This includes RINOS, Dems, and Tech Execs. We now have the green light.”
The comparisons between the detainment of Jan. 6 defendants and extrajudicial torture centers have been driven by prominent conservative political figures. Legislators, including representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Louie Gohmert ,. Greene likened the conditions to those of a “prisoner of war camp.” Fox News host Tucker Carlson produced a three-part special in which the Jan.
Part three of Tucker Carlson's January 6th special compares people imprisoned in the DC jail to the prisoners unlawfully detained and tortured in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.
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