Today the world has its eyes on Washington DC. We wait to see what might happen during and after President-elect Biden's inauguration. And we wonder which executive orders the new POTUS (President Of The United States) will sign as he eases himself into his Oval Office chair.

Particular things that Integritas Healthcare, the medical non-government organisation with a heart for detainees, wants to know are...

Will President Biden act decisively to end his nation's record of executing prisoners who may have committed their crimes whilst seriously mentally unwell? And will he move to end the decades of solitary confinement, which could be said to amount to psychological and environmental torture, endured habitually by many death row prisoners?

We wait with expectation. But regardless of whether President Biden acts on this matter soon, within the next few months or never, the international appetite for change grows ever stronger.

Please Mr President, such actions would be the start of a much needed improvement in the treatment of detainees on your country's soil. We hope for the day when leaders of smaller nations set on improving their human rights records are able to look up to the United States of America and pledge to emulate your statesmanship in this matter.

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