Amnesty International USA will be urging second-term President Barack Obama to finally close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. On his second day in office in 2008, Obama ordered that Guantanamo should closed within one year. Today it remains open, with 166 detainees. Writing on the NGO's blog, Zeke Johnson says that human rights violations have become the "new normal" there, at Bagram in Afghanistan and elsewhere, including indefinite detention, unfair trials, unlawful killings with drones and impunity for torture. (Ekklesia)