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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 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 ...
A copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta–the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp– was released on the WikiLeaks website on 7 November 2007. [6] The document was written under the authority of Geoffrey D. Miller when he was the officer in charge of Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
The Pentagon announced two more prisoners were released Wednesday from Guantánamo Bay. Another prisoner's release was announced earlier this week. U.S. releases 2 Guantánamo prisoners, leaving ...
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]