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The Guantanamo Bay detention center was established by the administration of George W. Bush at an American military base in Cuba in 2002. The establishment of the prison was aimed at depriving detainees of the post-9/11 “war on terror” of the constitutional rights they would enjoy on US soil. [6]
The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, including the detention camp, is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) of the Southern Command of the Department of Defense (DoD). [30] The main detention compound is Camp Delta , which replaced the temporary Camp X-Ray in April 2002, with other compounds including Camp Echo , Camp Iguana , and ...
Some Guantanamo Bay detainees report being tortured in a prison they called "the dark prison", also near Kabul. [62] Also in Afghanistan, Jalalabad and Asadabad have been reported as suspected sites. [63] In Iraq, Abu Ghraib was disclosed as a black site, and in 2004 was the center of an extensive prisoner abuse scandal. [64]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin revoked the authority of the official running the war court at Guantánamo Bay to reach settlements, the latest legal twist tied to a long-running drama over the ...
A Kenyan prisoner was released from the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay on Tuesday after spending more than a decade imprisoned without charges. Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, 51, served 17 ...
Us Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Of Former Guantanamo Bay Detainee Who Killed Us Soldier Indonesian police and rescue workers are seen at the site of a bomb blast in the tourist area of Kuta, Bali ...
The Guantánamo Bay files leak (also known as The Guantánamo Files, or colloquially, Gitmo Files) [1] began on 24 April 2011, when WikiLeaks, along with The New York Times, NPR and The Guardian and other independent news organizations, began publishing 779 formerly secret documents relating to detainees at the United States' Guantánamo Bay detention camp established in 2002 after its ...
"I observed that after two decades of custody, the suffering of those detained is profound, and it's ongoing," Fionnuala Ni Aolain said at the United Nations after completing the first official ...