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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]
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 ...
A flurry of legal challenges to their detention by the U.S. could come as more illegal immigrants are detained at Guantanamo, Cuba, experts warn.
Located on the southeastern coast of Cuba, Guantanamo occupies an odd historical position as a vestige of American imperialism: The U.S. seized the bay in 1898 during the Spanish-American War as ...
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 ...
This 2016 photo shows the exterior of Camp 6 at the detention center at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval base, in Cuba. (Ben Fox/AP/File)
The exact location of the current CSRT hearings is unknown, but prior CSRT hearings were held in trailers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Images of the trailers, with the white, plastic chairs the detainees sat in shackled to the floor and the large, black leather chair behind a microphone where the President sat can be found on the DoD website.
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 ...