Today we’re delivering to the White House an impressive 164,058 signatures from Amnesty International supporters around the world demanding an end to detentions at Guantanamo Bay.

11 January this year marked exactly 10 years since the first 25 prisoners arrived shackled, hooded and masked at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

From Washington DC to Tripoli, Chicago, Paris, Dallas, London, and Stockholm, people marked the day by demanding that the US government end illegal detentions at the facility once and for all.

Check out photos, video and news articles: Washington Post story and slideshow; Amnesty International USA’s Facebook photos; Amnesty International France’s Statue of Liberty stunt; Amnesty InternationaI’s Spain’s demonstration in front of the US embassy in Madrid; and Witness Against Torture’s Live Stream.

It’s been three years since both Barack Obama and Republican Presidential candidate, John McCain, pledged to close Guantanamo while they were on the campaign trail. Yet today, 171 detainees remain there, with a number of them subject to trials by unlawful military commissions.

This year was not just another anniversary. Just a few weeks ago, Obama rang in the new year by signing in the frightening new National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), that paved the way for laws authorising indefinite detention issued by him or any future President.

Tomorrow President Obama will give his annual State of the Union Address. He and other politicians are unlikely to address the state of human rights in the USA - but the people will.

Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this amazing global effort.