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Guantánamo Bay

July 2024

  • FILE - In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at Guantanamo Bay has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody. A military judge is expected to rule as soon as Thursday whether al-Shibh’s mental issues render him incompetent to take part in the proceedings against him. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

    New Cuban radar site near US military base could aid China spying – report

    CSIS calls site near Guantánamo Bay a ‘powerful tool’ that will be able to monitor air and maritime activity of US military

May 2024

  • smiling man

    US supreme court rejects appeal of Canadian who was held at Guantánamo

    Omar Khadr sought to wipe away his war crimes convictions, including for killing US special forces medic in Afghanistan

March 2024

  • Guantánamo detention camp seen from above.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Serial season 4: Guantánamo; Hidden Treasures: The Dumb Waiter, Traitor; Dial F for Football – review

    The grandaddy of podcasts reassesses the US terrorist detention camp; a rerun of Pinter and Potter plays is not to be missed. And at last, a genuinely funny new radio comedy…

January 2024

  • ‘An FBI agent described seeing a man lying nearly unconscious on the floor of a sweltering hot room, next to a pile of his own hair, which he’d been pulling out.’

    It’s been 22 years since the Guantánamo prison opened. Men are still held there

    Pardiss Kebriaei
    During his captivity, my client Sharqawi Al Hajj has lost both parents and gone through his 30s and most of his 40s. He wonders what future he has left

December 2023

  • People walk past a guard tower at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

    Guantánamo prisoner can sue UK government, supreme court rules

    Palestinian national claims British intelligence services asked CIA to put questions to him while he was being tortured in ‘black sites’

October 2023

  • Guantánamo Bay tower

    Second investigation to open into role of British spies in torture of Guantánamo detainee

    Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri claim UK intelligence was ‘complicit in his ill-treatment’ by the US

September 2023

  • FILE - In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at Guantanamo Bay has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody. A military judge is expected to rule as soon as Thursday whether al-Shibh’s mental issues render him incompetent to take part in the proceedings against him. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

    Judge rules 9/11 defendant unfit for trial after CIA torture made him psychotic

    Ramzi bin al-Shibh was one of five defendants facing trial in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people in the 9/11 attacks by al-Qaida

August 2023

  • Tthe 9/11 Empty Sky memorial in New Jersey, across the Hudson River from One World Trade Center in Manhattan.

    Accused 9/11 architect could avoid US death penalty under plea deal proposal

    Families informed that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed prosecution, troubled by long delays, could end with pre-trial agreement

July 2023

  • ‘These men are all survivors of torture, a unique crime under international law, and in urgent need of care,’ said Fionnuala Ní Aoláin.

    US must urgently treat men tortured at Guantánamo, UN investigator says

    Fionnuala Ní Aoláin tells the Guardian that the US must redress the harms it inflicted on its Muslim torture victims

June 2023

  • The control tower of Camp VI detention facility is seen in Guantánamo Bay in April 2019.

    US subjects Guantánamo Bay detainees to ‘cruel’ treatment, UN says after visit

    First UN human rights investigator allowed to visit since it was set up says men subjected to ‘inhuman and degrading’ treatment

May 2023

  • FILE - In this June 6, 2008 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over Camp Delta detention compound which has housed foreign prisoners since 2002, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba. Defense lawyers in the Sept. 11 war crimes case at Guantanamo Bay asked a judge Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016 to secure a copy of a U.S. Senate report on the CIA's harsh interrogation tactics before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, at which point they fear it might be too late. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool, File)

    UK spies to be investigated over claims they were complicit in torture of CIA prisoner

  • A watchtower at the Guantánamo Bay base in Cuba, with a US flag sign fixed to the wall

    Guantánamo detainee accuses UK agencies of complicity in his torture

  • ammar al baluchi

    This 9/11 suspect and ‘torture prop’ has spent 20 years in Guantánamo. Is he nearing a deal with the US?

  • A collage of Abu Zubaydah’s drawings

    ‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy

April 2023

  • View of prison gates from outside

    ‘Crimes against humanity’: UN body calls for release of Guantánamo inmate

  • Ron DeSantis in Iraq.

    Ron DeSantis in Guantánamo: how questions about his past haunt the Florida governor

March 2023

  • A painting of an inmate at Guantanamo reclining on a mattress, by Sabri al-Qurashi.

    For all of us detained at Guantánamo, making art was a lifeline. Why won’t Joe Biden let us keep our work?

    Mansoor Adayfi
    Art freed our minds and helped us survive. It cannot be right to argue that, even now, the fruits of our creativity belong to the state, says Mansoor Adayfi, an artist and former Guantánamo prisoner

February 2023

  • Signs rest on a tree during a protest near the White House in Washington DC on 11 January 2023, the 21st anniversary of the opening of the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.

    Guantánamo Bay sends two inmates to Pakistan after 20 years

  • Majid Khan’s release marks the first time a ‘high-value detainee’ has been freed from Guantánamo Bay.

    Guantánamo detainee who was tortured by CIA released to Belize

January 2023

  • ‘President Biden has quietly worked to wind down the prison camp, but without cooperation from the US Congress, Guantánamo will remain open.’

    I survived Guantánamo. Why is it still open 21 years later?

    Mansoor Adayfi
    A generation was born and came of age since the prison opened. Four US presidents have served. Yet 35 men remain there
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