It is illegal to detain them under US law unless they were "enemy combatants." They have a legal right to challenge this determination in US courts. If they are being held for political views only, then the US judiciary will have to be in league with the military, in direct violation of the law. That's a grand conspiracy.

Beyond that, they are foreign nationals of up to forty different countries. Once it is reported or reasonably confirmed that one of them was wrongfully and intentionally held for political views only, then you will be one step towards justifyingly calling this a "gulag," but you will still need 2,999,999 more such cases, where they also DIED in custody, before this can be equated with the true gulags of the brutal, authoritarian Stalinists who were intentionally and legally terrorising their own citizenry to suppress dissent. Just seems a bit of a stretch, to me.

Don't bother calling me an apologist for detention without representation, as the Bush administration wanted, and held onto for a while. Or a supporter of torture. Those are each disgraces of the highest magnitude. I'm just saying that the use of hyperbole is counter-productive. If AI is working to prevent or remedy political incarceration, good on them. Guess we should see the report.