Guantánamo Didn't End, It Just Got a UK Visa
When Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo detainee, writes that in the Pal Action detentions he sees 'clear evidence that Guantánamo did not end; it spread,' it should be a five-alarm fire for every news desk. Yet, the broader Western press remains conspicuously deaf, refusing to connect the dots between state surveillance, crackdowns on Palestine solidarity, and the very detentions they
(sometimes) decried on foreign soil. The narrative remains stubbornly siloed: 'human rights abuses' only apply to America's declared enemies, never to its own 'democratic' allies. This isn't new; it's a feature, not a bug. Mainstream outlets that once lambasted the indefinite detention at Guantánamo now largely ignore similar carceral tactics, asset freezes, and speech suppression aimed at
pro-Palestine activism. It appears that 'Guantánamo' was a specific location, not a systematic denial of justice, in their editorial lexicon. The question isn't whether state repression spreads, but whether the 'free press' will report it when its own governments are doing the detaining.