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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 housing of migrants at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has been criticized by human rights groups. [7] The International Refugee Assistance Project said that those who were detained there "described unsanitary conditions, families with young children housed together with single adults, a lack of access to confidential phone calls, and the ...
A persistent standard of indefinite detention without trial and incidents of torture led the operations of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to be challenged internationally as an affront to international human rights, and challenged domestically as a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments of the United ...
The American Civil Liberties Union and other human rights groups have sued the federal government for access to immigrants who have been detained at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
A migrant prepares to board a flight to Guantanamo Bay. The detention of illegal immigrants at Guantanamo could raise legal challenges, experts say.
Guantanamo Bay is famously known for holding suspected terrorists after the 9/11 attacks. But during the 80s and 90s, it held thousands of Haitians, including HIV-positive patients from the ...
The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Monday the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment ...
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). [32] 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 ...