Telegraph.co.uk
| May 23, 2013
A founder of the Code Pink anti-war group was removed from the audience at President Obama's counterterror speech after repeatedly interrupting him, urging him to finally close Guantanamo Bay. Obama went off-script to acknowledge "the voice of tha...
Associated Press
| May 23, 2013
President Obama offered a robust defense of his drone policy in a major counterterrorism policy speech, but said the strikes would be scaled back as part of a transition away from the "War on Terror." He also vowed to redouble efforts to close the...
PBS NewsHour
| Apr 22, 2013
The number of hunger strikers protesting conditions at Guantanamo Bay has increased to more than half of the prisoners, with 84 of the 166 captives refusing to eat and 16 being force-fed while bound to a chair or a gurney. The military is rushing ...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 14, 2013
Guards have swept through communal cellblocks at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and moved the inmates into one-man cells in an attempt to end a hunger strike that began in February. Attorneys, military officials and human rights monitors have a...
Al Jazeera English
| Apr 12, 2013
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has urged US president Barack Obama to do more to help the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Peter Maurer highlighted the issue of force-feeding inmates who are currently on a mass hunger strike...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 13, 2013
As more than 100 Guantánamo Bay prisoners enter the fifth week of their hunger strike, the Obama administration has defended their detention at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A number of prisoners have been ...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 13, 2013
More than 100 detainees held in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay are reportedly entering their fifth week of a hunger strike sparked by deteriorating conditions. News of the hunger strike first emerged last week but it appears the...
NTDTV
| Jan 30, 2013
Lawyers for suspects accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks want to get a better idea of what life in the Guantanamo Bay detention center is like for their clients. The lawyers, who argue that harsh pretrial conditions could spare their clients the ...
Press TV
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Mosaic
| Nov 29, 2012
Press TV reports that investigators are questioning the suspicious death of a Yemeni detainee who was held at Guantanamo Bay. Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif was found dead in September at the military prison. The death was reported as a suicide from an ...
— Nov 7, 2012 at 10:04 pm
...Obama promised to close the detention facility within a year of coming to office after he was elected in 2008, and he tried. Alternative prisons...
— Apr 8 at 10:10 pm
A Pentagon contract tugboat inexplicably sunk at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, over the weekend, creating a hazardous waste spill, th...
— May 8 at 11:07 pm
...experience of republican comrades in the 1970’s in jails in England who were forced fed. Michael Gaughan died on hunger strike in Parkhurst pris...
Guantánamo Bay is a bay located in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the largest harbor on the south side of the island and it is surrounded by steep hills which create an enclave that is cut off from its immediate hinterland.
The United States assumed territorial control over the southern portion of Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty. The United States has complete jurisdiction and control over this territory, while Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty. The current government of Cuba regards the U.S. presence in Guantánamo Bay as illegal and insists the Cuban-American Treaty was obtained by threat of force in violation of international law. Some legal scholars judge that the lease may be voidable. It is the home of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which is governed by the United States.
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