On January 11, 2002, 20 prisoners landed on the sun-scorched tarmac of the US’s long-forgotten military base in Guantanamo, Cuba. Shackled, hooded, and gagged they had been flown halfway around the world to what would become the US’s most infamous extrajudicial prison. Twenty-two years later, the prison remains open, a living testament to humanity’s dual capacity for shameless cruelty and surprising resilience. As a survivor of Guantanamo, I still remember the words my fellow prisoners said to me the day I was released in July 2016: “Don’t Forget Us Here, brother!” I think about those words ev…