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Managed by. United States Navy. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp[ note 1 ] is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh) on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects ...
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo / ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh as jargon by members of the U.S. military [1]) is a United States military base located on 45 square miles (117 km 2) of land and water [2] on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end ...
List of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Detainees by nationality. Afghan (29%) Saudis (17%) Yemenis (15%) Pakistanis (9%) Algerians (3%) Others (27%) As of December 2023, 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. [1][2][3] This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, but is ...
The Guantanamo Bay detention center is described by Al-Jazeera as "a symbol of brutality of the US’s so-called war on terror". [4] A senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated that prisoners detained by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention center for years display evidence of "accelerated ageing."
The Joint Detention Group is one of the components of the Task Force. It is the organization assigned to guarding the captives, and maintaining camp security. [7] The guards within the Joint Detention Group come from the United States Army and the United States Navy. In 2009, guards outnumbered prisoners in Guantanamo by more than five to one.
Executive Order 13492. Executive Order 13492, titled Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities, is an Executive Order that was signed by United States President Barack Obama on 22 January 2009, ordering the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. [1]
In United States law, habeas corpus is a recourse challenging the reasons or conditions of a person's detention under color of law. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. A persistent standard of indefinite detention without trial and incidents of torture led the operations ...
Timeline of the release and transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees. In late 2008, the Department of Defense published a list of the Guantanamo captives who died in custody, were freed, or were repatriated to the custody of another country. [ 1 ] The list was drafted on October 8, 2008, and was published on November 26, 2008.