Efforts To Speed Up A Guantanamo Detainee Trial May Actually Slow It Down

Abd al-Rahim Al-Nashiri is one of five high-level detainees identified as having been subject to torture like waterboarding and rectal feeding.

Tyler Pager
By Tyler Pager
Guantanamo

A morning sunrise at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. A Republican-led Senate panel on Feb. 12, 2015, narrowly approved legislation that would bar most transfers of terror suspects from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a major roadblock in President Barack Obamaís push to close the detention center. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE,

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Refusal To Return Guantanamo To Cuba Is Threatening Newly Kindled US Cuban Relations

So far, the normalization of relations has meant Cuba must capitulate to U.S. interests while the U.S. refuses to budge on issues that are of paramount concern to Cuba — in particular, the return of Guantanamo.

Ramona Wadi
By Ramona Wadi
American Flag

An American flag flies behind the barbed and razor-wire at the Camp Delta detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Photo: Brennan Linsley/AP The normalization process in relations between Cuba and the United States -- a process kicked off with a December prisoner swap which saw the release of USAID subcontractor Alan

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Guantanamo Detainee: I Was Gang-Raped By Female Interrogators

A just-published diary from one of Guantanamo Bay’s longtime detainees shares in gruesome detail the abuses he suffered, and alleges he was sexually assaulted by female guards.

Nico Hines for Daily Beast
By Nico Hines for Daily Beast

Military personnel  inspect each occupied cell on a two-minute cycle at Camp 5 maximum-security facility at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Photo: Brennan Linsley/AP President Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo Bay sounded terribly hollow during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, six years after he first pledged to

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As US Releases More Prisoners From Guantanamo, Questions Languish Over Those Left Behind

More than a hundred detainees remain in military prison, while many of those named in last year’s US Senate torture report remain unaccounted for.

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis

A detainee is escorted to interrogation by U.S. military guards in the temporary detention facility Camp X-Ray at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. Photo: Andres Leighton/AP The United States transferred five Yemeni prisoners out of the Guantánamo Bay military prison on Wednesday, releasing them to Estonia and Oman in the first

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Freed Guantánamo Detainees Adjust To Life In Uruguay

Political perversities have placed on their shoulders the burden of demonstrating that prisoners at Guantánamo can be freed without the risk of turning into what, according to Washington’s latest version, they never were: terrorists.

Diana Cariboni
By Diana Cariboni

The six freed Guantánamo detainees line up to hold a Uruguayan baby. In this picture, Tunisian Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy holds up the infant while Syrian Ali Hussein Muhammed Shaaban watches. Credit: Diana Cariboni/IPS MONTEVIDEO - In the summery afternoon of a beachside neighbourhood not far from the Uruguayan capital, nothing could

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US Transfers 5 More Guantanamo Detainees To Slovakia And Georgia

There are now 143 detainees still at the US military facility in Cuba.

Hayat Norimine
By Hayat Norimine

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — After a decade at the US Naval base, five Guantanamo Bay detainees left their jail cells on Thursday to board a C-17 Air Force plane bound for new soil. The men are being transferred to Slovakia and Georgia, reducing the count of detainees in Guantanamo Bay to 143. One is a Tunisian national and four are from Yemen. All

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