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The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States military located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in January 2002 by the George W. Bush administration to hold detainees it had determined to be connected with opponents in the "war on terror" after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US.
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The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States military located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in January 2002 by the George W. Bush administration to hold detainees it had determined to be connected with opponents in the "war on terror" after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US.
- The five will be the first to go on trial in the military commissions established to handle the ‘war on terror’ detainees
Second such case after an EU court ruled last year that Lithuania was involved in a covert US government detainment and interrogation programme.
Second such case after an EU court ruled last year that Lithuania was involved in a covert US government detainment and interrogation programme.
At least one of the inmates has vanished in a terrorist-held part of Syria
At least one of the inmates has vanished in a terrorist-held part of Syria
Majid Khan, who became a government informant, used a made-up word coined by Donald Trump to describe his convoluted court proceedings.
Majid Khan, who became a government informant, used a made-up word coined by Donald Trump to describe his convoluted court proceedings.
Confessed al-Qaeda member Ahmed al-Darbi has been sent to Saudi Arabia, where he may remain for the rest of his 13-year sentence
Confessed al-Qaeda member Ahmed al-Darbi has been sent to Saudi Arabia, where he may remain for the rest of his 13-year sentence
Man accused of helping plot the attacks is said to be on hunger strike to protest against his treatment
Man accused of helping plot the attacks is said to be on hunger strike to protest against his treatment
A Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay is mounting a legal challenge to win his release, arguing in a US federal lawsuit that he should be freed when US combat troops pull out of Afghanistan because international law stipulates prisoners of war be returned home once a conflict is over.
A Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay is mounting a legal challenge to win his release, arguing in a US federal lawsuit that he should be freed when US combat troops pull out of Afghanistan because international law stipulates prisoners of war be returned home once a conflict is over.
Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating "kill courts", according to human rights campaigners. They say President Barack Obama's promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions.
Proposals to vet future US drone strikes risk creating "kill courts", according to human rights campaigners. They say President Barack Obama's promise of new legal oversight does not go far enough to end what they regard as extrajudicial executions.
President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to renew a push to close the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, amid a growing hunger strike by inmates at the controversial jail.
President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to renew a push to close the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, amid a growing hunger strike by inmates at the controversial jail.