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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
As early as 2004, the US government claimed that detainees released from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp had returned to the battlefield. [2] Initially, government spokesmen claimed relatively small numbers of former Guantanamo captives had returned to the battlefield. In a press briefing on March 6, 2007, a "Senior Defense official" commented: [3]
12 July 1940 – Contract signed with Frederick Snare Corporation to begin a vast construction program for build-up of the Station. 1 April 1941 – Naval Operating Base, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, established. 25 February 1948 – President Harry S. Truman visited Base. 18 June 1952 – Title of Naval Operating Base changed to Naval Base.