Activists demonstrated in front of the White House on Friday to urge closure of the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. More than 100 prisoners are currently on a hunger strike in protest of their indefinite detention. The co-founder of the activist group CodePink, Diane Wilson, was arrested after chaining herself to the White House fence. Appearing before a congressional briefing, the former chief prosecutor at Guantánamo, Colonel Morris Davis, delivered a petition of more than 188,000 people calling for the prison’s closure.

Col. Morris Davis: “Our joke at Guantánamo was: You gotta lose to win. Because if you get charged as a war criminal and convicted and lose, you might get to go home; and if you don’t get charged, you can sit there for the rest of your life. The cases — the administration has got to make a decision on which cases they want to prosecute, and they should be prosecuted in federal court.”