March 22, 2024 - There are still 30 men in Guantanamo, do you have a specific message for them that we could share with the international community? These 30 men are a message to humanity. For us, closing Guantanamo is about releasing the prisoners that are approved for transfer or release and getting people ...

August 24, 2024 - As of January 5, 2017, 55 detainees remained at Guantanamo. By January 19, 2017, at the end of the Obama Administration, the detention center remained open with 41 detainees remaining. CSRT is Combatant Status Review Tribunals. Individuals with "SAMWL" are listed on the Saudi Arabian most wanted ...

January 11, 2022 - Two decades later, the debate continues ... and prison there. NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer has made several trips to Guantanamo, and she's here to talk about this anniversary and the future of the prison. ... SACHA PFEIFFER, BYLINE: Hi, Ari. SHAPIRO: How many people are still in prison at ...

5 days ago - On 19 July 2021, The U.S. Department of State under the Biden Administration released Moroccan national Abdul Latif Nasir into the custody of his home country. Nasir was the first Guantanamo detainee released since 2016 and after his departure 39 detainees still remained imprisoned.

February 24, 2023 - The Department of Defense announced the repatriations of Abdul Rabbani and Mohammed Rabbani from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Pakistan.

August 20, 2021 - Despite being a child, Mohammed ... lawyers won a court order for his release in 2009. In total, only 8 men held in Guantanamo have ever been convicted, and 4 of these convictions have since been reversed....

30 men are still held, and three of these men were recommended for release by high-level governmental review processes under President Obama back in January 2010.

I can say, having been in Guantanamo and seeing the commissions up close, it has been 12 years since 9/11, and we are still litigating what kind of clothes people can wear in court, what kind of notes lawyers can take in meetings, and what rights apply. It is a very confusing system. It is a very slow, inefficient system. It is obviously--as the numbers you indicated, it is a much slower system than Federal courts. There ...

April 2, 2019 - Yet now, almost two decades after the prison opened, forty men still remain at a cost of more than 10 million dollars per detainee per year, and the Trump administration is reportedly considering reopening the prison to new detainees—this time alleged members of ISIS, despite a lack of clear ...

January 10, 2022 - 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 detained as “combatants.” Thirteen have been cleared for release yet remain jailed.

January 9, 2024 - It was 22 years ago this week that the U.S. opened a military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold suspected terrorists after the 9/11 attacks. That prison remains open today. It still holds 30 men, many of whom have never been criminally charged, and there has still been no 9/11 trial.

But there should be no debate about the U.S. corrections systems' ability to hold Guantanamo detainees should they be transferred State-side. The American Correctional Association takes no position on closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. But those that are opposed to closing it ...

Some of the most poignant and affecting ... protests there. Before being elected to office, then Senator Barack Obama stated that “As President, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act and adhere to the Geneva Conventions. Our Constitution and our Uniform Code of Military ...

September 10, 2021 - President Joe Biden turned the page on one legacy of 9/11 when he ended the war in Afghanistan, but he has yet to do much about another: the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

August 30, 2021 - Of the 39 detainees, 27 have never been charged; five await trial over their alleged involvement in plotting the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

February 15, 2022 - The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

January 21, 2021 - Closing the notorious prison facility on Cuba will be complex and politically thankless. Is Joe Biden prepared to take it on?

February 13, 2021 - President Joe Biden's aides have launched a formal review of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, reviving the Obama-era goal of closing the controversial facility with the aim of doing so before he leaves office, the White House said on Friday.