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9 unusual facts about Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp


Anne-Marie Lizin

Shanita Simmons interviews Lizin during a visit to Guantanamo

Caimanera

Residents of this remote town are the closest Cuban neighbours to the US military camp and currently prison for combatants from a war in Afghanistan.

Cuban refugees at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

The refugees who represented discipline or security problems were held on the site that would later become Camp XRay, the initial site of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Drowning Pool

"Bodies" was used consistently by interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in 2003.

Guantánamo Bay

Since 2002, the base has included the detainment camp for people deemed of risk to US national security.

Hilda Woolnough

One of the last projects Hilda worked on was in conjunction with Amnesty International about the crisis at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Janet Paraskeva

On 6 July 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that Paraskeva would be one of three members of an inquiry to determine whether British intelligence officers were complicit in the torture of detainees, including those from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp or subject to rendition flights.

No blood, no foul

In Guantanamo, “doctors were made to agree to torture in advance and to live by the motto: “No blood, no foul.”

Standish, Michigan

In late 2009 the facility was considered, along with the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as the United States site for more than 220 prisoners relocated from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.


Abdulkareem Khadr

Others of the Khadr family in Canada include his sister Zaynab Khadr and her daughter, his older brothers Abdullah, Abdurahman, who worked as an undercover informant for the CIA in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and in Bosnia before returning to Canada; and Omar Khadr, the last to arrive.

Diary of a Bad Year

The essays, which take up the larger part of each page, are on wide-ranging topics, including the politics of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Guantanamo Bay, and terrorism.

Doctors of the Dark Side

The movie tells the story of four detainees, and how healthcare professionals working for the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency implemented enhanced interrogation techniques, and covered up signs of torture at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp and Abu Ghraib Prison.

Frank Sweigart

As Director of OARDEC Sweigart is notable for having the responsibility to oversee the operation of the annual Administrative Review Board hearings for approximately 250 captives the United States holds in extrajudicial detention in it Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.

Gitmo – The New Rules of War

Gitmo: The new rules of war is a Swedish documentary about the Guantanamo Bay detention camp by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh.

Hamid Slimi

Slimi is considered as a candidate to play a role in Canadian Guantanamo captive/detainee Omar Khadr's rehabilitation, if and when he returns to Canada.

Michael Welner

Welner testified for the prosecution in the military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp against Omar Khadr, who was convicted of war crimes committed in Afghanistan.

Montasser el-Zayat

In May 2009 Al Arabiya reported that el-Zayat had been invited to defend Mustafa al-Hawsawi, one of the fourteen high-value detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, before a Guantanamo military commission.

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror

This book was written in 2003 to address questions of human rights and humanitarian policy which arose as a result of the issues surrounding the War on Terror, particularly with regard to the US Foreign Policies of the time including the detention of terrorist suspects without trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

United States Navy Brig, Norfolk Virginia

Yaser Esam Hamdi, captured in Afghanistan, then transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba, was transferred to Norfolk, when it was realized he was an American citizen.


see also

2014 in British radio

2 January – The morning's edition of BBC Radio 4's Today is guest edited by musician PJ Harvey, with items includes a Thought for the Day from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and a segment in which John Pilger criticises US President Barack Obama for not closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Jarallah

Jaralla al-Marri, Qatari citizen, former detainee at the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp

Naimi

Abdulla Majid Al Naimi, Bahraini formerly held in extrajudicial detention in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention camp