Twenty-four human rights activists have been acquitted on unlawful assembly charges for a protest at the US Capitol in January against President Obama’s failure to close the Guantánamo prison. The activists were arrested shortly after holding a ceremony for three Guantánamo Bay prisoners whose deaths were initially reported as suicides but now are speculated to have died from torture. In a statement, the group behind the protest, Witness Against Torture, said, “We will use our freedom to continue to work for the day when Guantánamo is closed and those who designed and carried out torture policies are held to account.”