April 15, 2019 - Ben Taub reports on Mohamedou Salahi, whom Guantánamo’s leadership considered to be its highest-value detainee but whose guard suspected otherwise.

Until or unless such a tribunal ... of In re Guantanamo detainee cases (see above), the same court found that “the CSRT’s extensive reliance on classified information…, the detainee’s inability to review that information, and the prohibition of assistance by counsel jointly deprive the detainees of sufficient notice of the factual bases of their detention and deny them a fair opportunity to challenge their incarceration. These grounds alone are sufficient ...

January 22, 2020 - The detention camp has helped enshrine indefinite detention, secrecy, and rogue justice in American life.

January 18, 2024 - The release of a new movie calls public attention to the US government’s treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, and what the detainees’ future might be.

January 11, 2016 - Still others have joined the fight with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – and a handful of them have been killed in conflict or by drone strikes, Arman said. Former Guantanamo prisoner Younous Chekkouri, repatriated to Morocco in September 2015, remains in jail there despite US diplomatic ...

Guantánamo is more than a naval base and a prison — it is also a city, a province, and a bay, a place of great natural beauty, with a rich history disfigured by military occupation.

October 30, 2020 - DOWNLOAD NATIONAL SECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES IN PDF THE ISSUE The U.S. Government opened the detention center at Guantánamo Bay in January 2002, to house people outside the reach of the law after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Since then, 780 men have been detained at Guantánamo.

Because of delays caused by Covid, the process of recording this song coincided with Khalid finally being approved for release from Guantánamo. As Andy explains, however, he has now joined a queue of 16 men approved for release who are still held, but as there is no legal mechanism that requires ...

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August 18, 2022 - A federal judge agreed, writing ... and the Guantanamo Bay detention center closed. The Haitians were admitted to the United States, but the unused facilities remained. And the base’s nebulous legal status – and therefore the question of whether the Constitution applies there – remained unresolved. 5. Dozens of people are still detained at ...

April 2, 2019 - Images of the men shackled on their ... hundreds more came and went. Ask any American on the street about Guantanamo and they likely have no idea that the United States is still holding people there....

January 10, 2022 - When I eventually visited him at his home there in 2009, I held his newborn daughter and ate dinner with his family. I wondered what the U.S. had gained from holding him for over five years. Twenty years after Guantanamo opened, that question applies to the entire operation. Seven hundred and thirty-two detainees, most held for years, have been released. Of the 39 people still imprisoned, most are ...

January 9, 2022 - The US-run enclave has proved hard to dismantle over two decades, a legal anomaly and lead weight wrapped around America’s global reputation

This chart shows the number of detainees held at the Guantánamo military prison (2002-2023).

July 19, 2024 - Guantánamo, city, eastern Cuba. It lies in the mountains 21 miles (34 km) north of strategic Guantánamo Bay on the Caribbean Sea. Founded in 1819, the settlement was called Santa Catalina del Saltadero del Guaso until 1843. French refugees from Haiti aided in the colonization of the area, and many

A child's death at the U.S. border put a spotlight on the peaceful highlands, where more people than ever are fleeing for the United States.

November 21, 2016 - Getty Images John Moore went back to the controversial detention center

The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experienced a variety of military and civilian governments, ...

August 7, 2024 - Since 2002, roughly 780 detainees have been held at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Thirty remain.