A community portal about The Guantanamo Bay detainment camp with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Guantánamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation center under the leadership of...
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A community portal about The Guantanamo Bay detainment camp with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Guantánamo Bay detainment camp serves as a joint military prison and interrogation center under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo and has occupied a portion of the United States Navy's base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002. The prison holds people suspected by the Executive branch of the U.S. government of being al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives, but with some people no longer considered suspects who are being held pending relocation elsewhere. The prisoners were captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States plans to transfer six Yemenis held at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba back to their home country in coming days, a move that could lead to repatriating dozens more, The Washington Post reported in its Friday edition. The newspaper, citing unnamed sources, said the release follows high-level meetings between officials of the two countries, including a visit by CIA Deputy Director Stephen Kappes to Yemen. The CIA declined to comment to the newspaper... Read Full Story
The White House is set to announce later Tuesday that it will direct the federal government to acquire a nearly-vacant Illinois prison to house Guantanamo detainees, local media reported. The Chicago Sun-Times, citing a senior administration official, reported that the White House would announce the acquisition of Thomson Correctional Center, located in rural Illinois. The Chicago Tribune reported that the facility would house between 35 and 90 detainees to be transferred from the... Read Full Story
A couple of weeks ago I attended a seminar discussing our value on justice with speakers Emily Berman and Michael Sternhell. This event invoked important relations between principle and interest. Many of us have argued that the Guantanamo detention camp is against human rights and we should have closed it down. However, another issue emerged. What are we going to do with the detainees? Among all the detainees, there is a special group call the Uighur. They fled away from western China to... Read Full Story
A group of lawmakers is questioning plans to try terror suspects in the United States and move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil. House Republicans say the Obama administration has failed to provide details on plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and move prisoners to possible sites in Illinois and Michigan. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (HOOK-stra) said it was "irrational" to send some Guantanamo detainees overseas and transfer some to the United States. The Michigan Republican and... Read Full Story
Twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of each of these cases. As a result of that review, which examined a number of factors, including potential threat, mitigation measures and the likelihood of success in habeas litigation, the detainees were approved for... Read Full Story
Lawyers representing the last British resident imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are in court seeking the release of documents relating to his treatment by American agents. Lawyers representing terrorism suspect Shaker Aamer say the documents will show that British officials were present when he was abused by Americans agents during interrogations that took place in Afghanistan. Judge Jeremy Sullivan said Tuesday the case involves allegations that British officials have been mixed up in... Read Full Story
As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts. The nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center in the western Illinois farming town of Thomson is the latest potential candidate being evaluated to hold detainees after President Barack Obama promised to close the military-run detention center in Cuba. Federal officials inspected Thomson on... Read Full Story
Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rural northwestern Illinois to the federal government to house Guantanamo Bay detainees and other inmates. Federal officials are expected to visit the maximum security Thomson Correctional Center, about 150 miles west of Chicago, on Monday. Both Quinn and Durbin said the possibility of selling the prison to the federal government was a once-in-a-lifetime... Read Full Story
Two Tunisians who had been detained at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay arrived in Italy late Monday and will be tried here on unspecified charges, the justice minister said. Adel Ben Mabrouk and Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri were immediately taken into custody upon arrival in Milan, RAI state television reported. Italy took in the Tunisians as a "concrete political sign" of Italy's commitment to help the U.S. close Guantanamo, Justice Minister Angelino Alfano said in a statement. Several European... Read Full Story
An Algiers court on Sunday cleared two men held at Guantanamo Bay for seven years, according to a legal source. Faghoul Abdelli and Mohamed Terari were accused of belonging to an overseas terrorist group but were acquitted by the criminal court in Algiers. During the trial, the men said they were "savagely tortured" while in detention at the US-run prison camp in Cuba. They were alleged to have left Algeria in the early 1990s for Germany, before travelling to Afghanistan, where they were... Read Full Story
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