I was a guard at Guantanamo when it opened in 2002 and I believe it should be closed down.
I was a guard at Guantanamo when it opened in 2002 and I believe it should be closed down.
Is the US still torturing people in Guantanamo Bay?
Is the US still torturing people in Guantanamo Bay?
Well, by US law, what goes on there isn't torture, so, using that legal definition, no one is being tortured there; They under go 'Enhanced interrogation".
if you want to know if the The interrogation methods (regarded as torture by a lot of the rest of the world and UN) are still happening, we don't really know :/ Best info I can find says between 70-100 ish terror suspects are currently held there ( even this isn't 100%) and all the info I can find (only using sites that have a clear source of info) kinda boils down to no one really thinks anyone held there right now has information of enough value to use such tactics. But all this is very murky; Lots of false/speculated info presented as fact from both sides of the issue
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China Says Guantanamo Bay Real 'Detention Camp' for Muslims
Nonsense. We have non-Muslims there too!
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ELI5: Why Guantanamo Bay is such a controversial issue
The president decided that a terrorist could not be tried in either the military court or the United States court system. For several reasons, including the the part where we can't torture enemies in the United States. He came up with this brilliant idea that if we created a whole separate prison for those that are deemed terrorists and they are not in the United States criminal system nor are they in the military system certain rules can be broken and other laws and penalties can be made for them. The problem with this is that a lot of people dont agree with what happening, obviously. Although President Bush has said that the certain techniques used in Guantanamo bay have proven very helpful, it is ultimately unconstitutional. To add onto this if president feels that anyone is a threat to the united states he can make the decision to send them to Guantanamo Bay under ANY circumstance.
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United States military prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba
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