14 years later, there is still no clarity on Gitmo’s closure.
14 years after it was initially opened, and 7 years after President Obama promised to close it, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay is open and active, still housing around 100 detainees, roughly split down the middle between those uncharged and cleared for release, and those uncharged but intended to be kept in detention essentially
In 2013, Aamer declared, “The eyes of the world are the only thing that will ever get me home to my family.” For the most part, he was right.
Published in partnership with ShadowProof. After more than thirteen years of torture, abuse, and unjust detention at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, Shaker Aamer has finally been released. A British resident and father of four children who was born in Saudi Arabia, Aamer was cleared for release in 2007, when British foreign secretary
‘Detention without trial is an affront to justice wherever it takes place’.
As the administration of President Barack Obama publicly floats the possibility of opening a "Guantánamo North" on U.S. soil, rights campaigners warn that a mere transfer of the men and boys to another prison across national borders will not rectify the grave human rights violations committed against them. "The Obama administration has its
The largest association of psychologists passed a measure prohibiting members from participating in interrogations in name of national security.
The American Psychological Association (APA) on Friday voted overwhelmingly to bar its members from participating in the interrogation of U.S. prisoners on foreign soil, officially ending the association's complicity in torture of detainees and taking the first step out of "the dark side." All but one member of the APA's 173-person Council of
A Miami Herald investigation found at least nine civilians and military lawyers suffering from lymphoma or brain, appendix or colon cancer, possibly caused by pollutants in their living quarters at the Navy’s controversial detention center in Cuba.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba --- Despite promises to close the detention center during Barack Obama’s presidential run, the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base remains open. And now it appears those detained at the controversial site aren’t the only ones suffering and dying -- their lawyers are also facing grave illness. Carol Rosenberg, a Miami
The normalization of relations could be hailed as a positive move, but given the history of U.S. intervention under the guise of democracy, not everyone is convinced that the U.S. isn’t simply manipulating diplomacy to subvert the island’s revolutionary forces.
WASHINGTON --- Feelings of anticipation and a sense of foreboding are both attending Cuba and the United States’s progress on plans to re-establish full diplomatic relations. The negotiations, which started in mid-2013, were announced publicly on Dec. 17, 2014, when the three remaining “Cuban 5” were released in exchange for USAID subcontractor
