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Six Uyghur captives in Guantanamo were transferred to Palau in October 2009. The move was called controversial because Palau is a former protectorate of the US, which still received much of its annual budget in the form of grants from the US. Portugal. 2009-08-28.
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 and "illegal enemy combatants ...
Mohamedou Ould Slahi has some advice for his onetime captors: Come clean about what was done to the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and transfer those accused of committing the 9/11 attacks to the U ...
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 ...
Camp X-Ray was a temporary detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp of Joint Task Force 160 on board the United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay. The first twenty detainees arrived at Guantanamo on 11 January 2002. [1][2] It was named Camp X-Ray because various temporary camps used to house Cuban and Haitian migrants in the ...
The U.S. is unwilling to surrender the extralegal powers that Guantanamo provides. “The main reason the United States chose to create a prison camp in Guantánamo Bay was because it could ...
Ammar al-Balushi or Amar Baloch; born Ali Abdul Aziz Ali on 29 August 1977) is a Pakistani (Balochi) citizen who has been in American custody at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp since 2006. [2] He was arrested in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2003 before being transferred; [3][4][5][6] the series of criminal charges against him include ...
The Moroccan prisoner, Abdullatif Nasser, who's in his mid-50s, was cleared for repatriation by a review board in July 2016 but remained at Guantanamo for the duration of the Trump presidency.