"We remain deeply concerned by the ongoing detention," it said in a statement.
The ongoing detention and torture at the prison which turns fifteen in January as well as the ongoing fight to close it, occurs largely outside mainstream media coverage or public consciousness.
"We are troubled by the ongoing detention and solitary confinement of Maria Chin Abdullah under national security laws," Alicia Edwards, a spokeswoman for the US state department, told Reuters in an emailed statement.
The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Clinic, is hoping that the pontiff will specifically raise the ongoing detention of hundreds of undocumented mothers and children from Central America when he meets several unaccompanied teenage immigrants on Thursday.
"A festival just for the sake of literature is always welcome but if it is done to show that everything is OK these days then it is a problem," said Arshad Mushtaq, a well-known local playwright whose recent work focused on the ongoing detention without trial of young men in Kashmir.
It comes after a UN-mandated body of human rights experts found that the ongoing detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arbitrary and that she was denied a fair trial and discriminated against as a dual national.
Her remarks came a day after the UK's Foreign Office said it was "deeply concerned" about the ongoing detention.
Holding detainees in US prisons would save taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, but the overall policies governing the ongoing detention of detainees would remain the same.
"MEAA condemns the ongoing detention of the pair and urges Indonesian authorities to free Dandois and Bourrat and drop all charges against them," the journalist's union said in a statement.
"The ongoing detention of journalists, municipal officials and residents by an armed group in Sloviansk speaks volumes about the lawlessness that has crept into parts of eastern Ukraine and raises fears the detainees could be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment," Heather McGill of Amnesty International said in a statement on Thursday.
