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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Rasul v. Bush, 542 U.S. 466 (2004), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of habeas corpus to review the legality of their detention. [1]
According to UN experts, the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba is a site of "unparalleled notoriety" and has been condemned as a site of "unrelenting human rights violations." The facility has been holding prisoners for over 20 years. [1] A document released by the Amnesty International reported ongoing and historic human rights ...
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.
Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008), was a writ of habeas corpus petition made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba. [1][2][3][4][5] The case underscored the ...
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 ...