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depression and hopelessness,” the slow
decline of “cognitive ability, as the
prisoners’ intellectual skills begin to
decay,” and often ultimately “a complete
break-down.”
49- Human rights defenders believe
that according to international law long
term solitary confinement can be deemed
as brutal and unnecessary punishments,
which can even be one of the examples
of torture.
50-Twenty-nine percent of Americans
support closing the terrorist detention
camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and
moving its prisoners to U.S. prisons,
while two in three (66%) oppose the
idea. Despite the recent controversy
surrounding the release of five Taliban
prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in
exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe
Berghdal’s release from Afghanistan,
Americans’ views have barely budged
since 2009.
51- According to a report by the
Government Accountability Office
(GAO) , the ICE has failed to report
allegations of sexual abuse and assault
that were made in their immigrant
detention facilities.
MINORITIES
52- Discrimination against racial
and religious minorities and systematic
actions against Muslims following the
9/11 attacks are some of the instances
of serious human rights violations in
America
53- A recent field experiment revealed
that there is a negative impact in all aspects
of the hiring process for Muslim women
wearing a hijab (religious headscarf)
compared to women who did not wear
a hijab. The experiment tracked several
areas of the hiring process, including the
permission to complete job applications,
job availability, job callbacks, interaction
time, and perceived negativity and lack of
interest by the employer.
54-Muslims make up less than one
percent of the population of the country,
but 14 percent of religious discrimination
and 5 percent of job discrimination is
against Muslims in the country.
55- As a consequence, according to
the Leadership Conference on Civil
and Human Rights, “American students
continue to at-tend schools that are
deeply segregated by both race and class,
and schools serving low-income families
and racial minorities consistently lack
the funding, resources, and faculty
experience and expertise necessary to
improve the education outcomes of
minority students.”
56-The New York Police Department
(NYPD) has implemented a massive
surveillance program targeting Muslim
communities in New York and the
surrounding states. The Program
“deployed undercover officers and
informants in mosques, schools,
restaurants, and bodegas through-out the
city to spy on the daily lives of thou-sands
of Americans.”
57- Council for Islam and America
Relations (CAIR) recently announced
that Islam phobia has escalated across
America, and mosques in different States
are under surveillance and pressure.
58- Although the United States has
accepted the recommendations on
fighting Islam phobia and Xenophobia,
but insulting Islam and opposition with
women Muslim women’s Islamic dress at
work are some of the job discriminations
imposed on American Muslims.
59-In 2012, Section 5 of the VRA
blocked highly-restrictive voter ID
laws in Texas and a law in Florida that
eliminated early voting days, which
would have made it more difficult for