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Reporter Sean Rayment and photographer Matt Sprake visited the US military detention centre in Cuba where terror suspects are held for years without trial.
Who needs facts when we have our emotions?
"But then it got rather complicated when it was discovered that Bergdahl developed second thoughts about the war in Afghanistan and may have even deserted his unit.
Back during World War II — a bitterly fought, bloody conflict that lasted seven years (four years for the US) — many German prisoners of war were held in camps in the US.
After many months in the media doldrums, Guantánamo Bay is back in the news, but not for good reasons.
The excuse-making on behalf of President Obama has always found its most extreme form when it came time to explain why he failed to fulfill his oft-stated 2008 election promise to close Guantanamo.
Reality TV celebrity Sarah Palin told the recent convention of the National Rifle Association, “waterboarding is how we [would] baptize terrorists.” Mrs. Palin would describe force-feeding of hunger strikers in Gitmo as a form of Communion.
The commander of Camp 7 is expected to testify at the hearing as are three military psychiatrists who have examined Binalshibh, according to a witness list disclosed Sunday. All will testify under pseudonyms at a proceeding
What does it take to get out of Guantanamo? Half the remaining detainees - 75 of the remaining 154 men - were led to believe they would be heading home soon when, in January 2010, the Guantanamo Review Task Force approved their release.
Uruguay said Thursday it agreed to take five prisoners from Guantanamo, as US President Barack Obama works to fulfill his years-old promise to close the controversial jail for terror suspects.
A military judge held a secret war court session Saturday on defense lawyers’ efforts to uncover evidence of what the CIA did to the alleged USS Cole bomber during years in the agency’s clandestine overseas prison network.
PROTESTERS outside Limerick Prison called for the release of 79-year-old anti-war activist Margaretta D’Arcy who was jailed for three months in relation to protests over the US military use of Shannon Airport.
A few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the Guantanamo Bay prison, hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus, sits a closely held secret.
The agency offered detainees freedom, safety, and millions of dollars. Many top al-Qaeda operatives were killed as a result of the risky program.
What did a Guantanamo inmate learn about Americans in Halloween?
Guantánamo's military tribunals were not created to try crimes, but to hide them.
Al Jazeera has obtained the personal diaries of one of the highest-value detainees at Guantanamo
At least 18 inmates continue to refuse food; advocates declare injustice, torture, unlawful detention remain
We've all seen the video of Yasiin Bey, formerly Mos Def, undergoing the force-feeding procedure used at Guantanamo Bay Prison. Here's what such a procedure could do to your health.
Americans may not be aware of the conditions that the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay are being forced to live in! It's actually pretty damn nice for a prison complete with amenities offered and concessions being made that makes them “some
Just because the whole world seems to be talking about closing Guantanamo Bay prison — not to mention the President of the United States — doesn’t mean it’s going to happen any time soon.
Ray McGovern: My Take
For more than a decade, the Guantanamo Bay prison has been a blot on America’s conscience. President Obama vowed to close it but acceded to congressional demands to keep it open. Now, an emerging humanitarian crisis – a mass hunger strike – is drawin
The hacktivist group Anonymous has announced it will mark the 100th day of the Guantanamo hunger strike with three days of massive protests, calling on supporters to join their global action both on the ground and online.
As a fourth generation shrimper and an environmental activist on the Texas gulf coast,I have gone on hunger fasts to protect the seas that my community of fishermen depend upon.I know how far I would go to be heard.To have a voice.To push for justice
'They Won’t Let Us Live in Peace and Now They Won’t Let Us Die in Peace'
Is Guantánamo falling?
Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a group of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block. The detainees are offered a hot meal or a
Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a group of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block.
President Obama this week defended the US’s policy of force feeding detainees in Guantanamo Bay who are protesting their due process-free indefinite detention by going on a hunger strike.
The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay.
