Jan. 6 defendants held in D.C. jail request transfer to Guantanamo Bay

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WASHINGTON — Nearly three dozen people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol who are being held at Washington, D.C.'s jail have asked to be transferred to the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, if conditions don't improve at their facility.On seven pages of yellow legal pad paper recently submitted in federal court, the 34 defendants described the jail in the nation's capital as having "medieval standards of living" and "hellacious conditions" that it "insists on tormenting its traumatized guests with."The defendants who have been ordered held at the Washington jail are largely accused of more serious crimes, like assaulting police.Another signer, Andrew Taake, who was arrested and accused of pepper-spraying and attacking police officers with a whip that day, was tracked down with the help of the dating service Bumble.Jonathan Mellis, nicknamed #cowbodyscreech by online sleuths who have identified rioters, is charged with assaulting police and took credit online for storming the Capitol after he got mad that people were crediting “antifa” for the insurrection."

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