"Camp No Camp No is an alleged secret detention and torture facility (black site) related to the United States detainment camps located in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. On January 18, 2010, Scott Horton asserted in an article in ""Harper's magazine,"" the result of a joint investigation with NBC News, that such a facility was maintained outside the regular boundaries of the Guantanamo Bay detention camps. Estimated to be located about a mile beyond the regular camp boundaries, the camp was described as a highly secret facility referred to as ""Camp No"" by Guantanamo guards. When soldiers asked about it, they were"
"Tunisian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding Tunisian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 779 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all ""high value detainees"" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. By July 2012 the camp held 168 captives. On February 24, 2010, Carol Rosenberg, of the ""Miami Herald"", reported that Albania accepted the transfer"
"detention -- Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld. Turkish detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding five Turkish captives in Guantanamo. A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all ""high value detainees"" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of July 2012 the camp population stands at 168. Several released Turkish captives have filed a lawsuit"
"during interrogations of suspected terrorists. The group has suggested this activity was a violation of the standards set by the Nuremberg Trials. The United States maintains a detention center at its military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba where enemy combatants of the war on terror are held. The detention center has been the source of various controversies regarding the legality of the center and the treatment of detainees. Amnesty International has called the situation ""a human rights scandal"" in a series of reports. 775 detainees have been brought to Guantánamo. Of these, many have been released without charge. The United"
"known as ""Hambali"", was transferred to Guantanamo from the CIA's network of secret interrogation centers. Indonesian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding two Indonesian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all ""high value detainees"" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of September 2009 the camp population stands"
"Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld Several captives released from extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba have filed a lawsuit against the USA for their detention -- Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld. The United States has held 778 captives in extrajudicial detention in a camp in its offshore Naval Base Guantanamo. It was the position of the Bush Presidency that the President could authorize the detention of captives apprehended in Afghanistan while withholding from them the protections of the Geneva Conventions. Further, the Presidency asserted, that since the base in Guantanamo was not officially part of the USA, captives held there"
"was a landmark case in the Court's detainee jurisprudence. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States launched a ""Global War on Terror"". In November 2001, President Bush asserted authority to try captives from the War before ""military commissions"" instead of through the civilian court system. Many captives from the war were held at Camp X-Ray, which was opened at the United States' Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba in January 2002. While the United States has an indefinite lease on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba still maintained ""de jure"" sovereignty over the area. Because of the mixed jurisdiction, the"
"Bay detention camp is a joint military prison and interrogation camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) which has occupied a portion of the United States Navy's base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002. The prison holds people suspected by the U.S. government of being al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending relocation elsewhere. As early as 2004, the US government claimed that detainees released from Guantanamo Bay detainment camp had returned to the battlefield. Initially, government spokesmen claimed relatively small numbers of former Guantanamo captives had"
"Guantánamo Bay. The detainment areas consist of three camps: Camp Delta (which includes Camp Echo), Camp Iguana, and Camp X-Ray, the last of which has been closed. The facility is often referred to as Guantanamo, or Gitmo. After the Justice Department advised that the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp could be considered outside U.S. legal jurisdiction, prisoners captured in Afghanistan were moved there beginning in early 2002. After the Bush administration asserted that detainees were not entitled to any of the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ""Hamdan v. Rumsfeld"" on June 29, 2006, that they"
"was a notorious maximum-security prison located in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, west of Baghdad, known for its use by Saddam Hussein to hold political prisoners who were subject to torture and extrajudicial killing. It was closed by Saddam in 2002, but following his overthrow in the Invasion of Iraq a section of the prison was reopened by the United States, which became an internment camp known as Camp Redemption. The section gained international attention from June 2003, when it was exposed that horrific torture and abuse of detainees by American guards was occurring. Despite Abu Ghraib prison being a fortified stronghold"
"1994. The new camp held first Haitians then Haitians and Cubans. Cubans only began to be sent to Guantanamo after Clinton reversed a nearly 30-year-old policy of immediate amnesty for Cubans arriving to the US. However, the Cubans were treated noticeably better than the Haitians. In an effort to decrease the size of the camp, the US tried to convince other countries in the Caribbean or Latin America to accept either Haitian or Cuban refugees. Up to 21,000 Haitians were held in Guantanamo at one time during this wave of the Haitian refugee camp. More than 30,000 Cubans were detained"
"century, the base was used to house Cuban and Haitian refugees intercepted on the high seas. In the early 1990s, it held refugees who fled Haiti after military forces overthrew president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. These refugees were held in a detainment area called Camp Bulkeley until United States district court Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr. declared the camp unconstitutional on 8 June 1993. This decision was later vacated. The last Haitian migrants departed Guantanamo on 1 November 1995. Beginning in 2002, some months after the War on Terror started in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, a small portion of"
"""Washington Post"" reported that Obama administration officials had gotten a country to accept him, but he declined their hospitality. Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi is a citizen of Tunisia held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba since the day it opened, on January 11, 2002. Al Yazidi's Guantanamo detainee ID number 38. The Department of Defense reports that he was born on January 24, 1965, in Unfidel, Tunisia. Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the """"war on terror"""" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions,"
"detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, although issues were expected to arise in such a plan because many of the detainees have been held without evidence or have been coerced in their confessions, which would not be admissible in a federal court. A November 20, 2008, Los Angeles Times article stated, ""Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion... 'It's astonishing that not one of the 23 senators or 133 House members who voted against the war is"
"from Cuba than previously. While U.S.-born Cuban Americans moved out of their enclaves, other nationalities settled there. In late 1999, U.S. news media focused on the case of Elián González, the six-year-old Cuban boy caught in a custody battle between his relatives in Miami and his father in Cuba, after the boy's mother died trying to bring him to the United States. On April 22, 2000, ICE (now USCIS) agents took Elián González to the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C. From there, his father took him back to Cuba. On January 12, 2017, President Barack Obama announced the immediate"
"being force-feeding. Khaled Qasim Khaled Qasim is a Yemeni citizen who has been held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba, for . Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the """"war on terror"""" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try"
"repatriation for both those found at sea and many living in Guantanamo. The HIV+ refugees were quarantined in a section of the military base known as Camp Bulkeley and faced human rights violations. They were brought to the United States after US District Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr. ruled the camp was an ""HIV prison camp."" In 1994, Guantanamo was again used as a refugee camp. This time both Cubans and Haitians were detained. Roughly 50,000 refugees were held at the camp. There were several important court cases and policies made that determined conditions and often location for the refugees. Haitians"
"held at Guantanamo, making Camp Bulkeley the world's first detention center for people with HIV/AIDS. The creation of the ""Guantanamo HIV Camp,"" as it was commonly known, infuriated AIDS activists in the United States, who immediately began protesting against it and the Bush administration . During his 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton declared the camp inhumane and illegal, but upon becoming President, his administration took no steps to close the camp. On January 29, 1993, the detainees - many having spent a year and a half at Camp Bulkeley - went on a hunger strike. Yale Law School students, who"
"Frequent flyer program (Guantanamo) The frequent flyer program is a controversial technique used by the USA in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. Guards deprived detainees of sleep by moving them from one cell to another, multiple times a day, for days or weeks on end. The technique was used to ""soften up"" detainees prior to interrogation. Guantanamo guards were ordered to discontinue the use of the technique in March 2004, although the practice persisted until at least later that year. Major David Frakt, USAF, defense counsel to a recipient of the program, Mohamed Jawad, said: In August 2008,"
"Witnesses requested by Guantanamo detainees Detainees in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba were initially not provided with any mechanism with which to challenge the allegations that kept them detained. Lawyers who volunteered to represent the detainees challenged various aspects of the legal basis of the Bush administration's policy on detainees in the war on terror. As a result of Rasul v. Bush, the US Supreme Court ruled that detainees needed to be provided with a mechanism whereby they could challenge the laws that kept them in detention. In July 2004 the Department of"
"100 ghost detainees. A number of the alleged detainees listed above were transferred to the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison on Cuba in the fall of 2006. With this publicly-announced act, the United States government ""de facto"" acknowledged the existence of secret prisons abroad in which these prisoners had been held. Khalid El-Masri is a German citizen who was detained in Skopje, flown to Afghanistan, interrogated and tortured by the CIA for several months, and then released in remote Albania in May 2004 without having been charged with any offense. This was apparently due to a misunderstanding that arose concerning the"
"Habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees The nature of international human rights law has been seemingly altered by Americans since the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is one example of recent developments that seem to disregard long standing human rights. The United States of America (USA) has pursued a 'seemingly deliberate strategy' to put suspected terrorists outside the reach of habeas corpus protections. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay serves as the location for a United States military prison in Cuba designed for the detention of non-citizens suspected of"
"Indonesian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding two Indonesian detainees in Guantanamo. A total of 778 detainees have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all ""high value detainees"" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. As of September 2009 the camp population stands at approximately 223. On September 5 2006 the only Indonesian in Guantanamo, Riduan Isamuddin, also"
"2006, it listed two detainees from Somalia. In 2006 and 2007 two more detainees from Somalia were transferred to Guantanamo from the CIA's network of ""black sites"". Somali detainees at Guantanamo Bay There were a total of four Somali detainees in Guantanamo of a total of 778 detainees that have been held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new suspects, all ""high value detainees"" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush."
"2004 was the center of an extensive prisoner abuse scandal. Additionally, Camp Bucca (near Umm Qasr) and Camp Cropper (near the Baghdad International Airport) were reported. The UAE runs secret prisons in Yemen where prisoners are forcibly disappeared and tortured. Some reported sites in Egypt, Libya and Morocco, as well as Djibouti The Temara interrogation centre, outside the Moroccan capital, Rabat, is cited as one such site. On January 23, 2009, ""The Guardian"" reported that the CIA ran a secret detention center in Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, a former French Foreign Legion base. The U.S. Naval Base in Diego Garcia"
"violating the international """"Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment or Punishment"""". Tarek Dergoul Tarek Dergoul is a citizen of the United Kingdom of Moroccan origin who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. He spent six or seven months in US custody in Afghanistan, prior to his arrival at Guantanamo on May 5, 2002. After he was repatriated to the United Kingdom on March 8, 2004, he asserted that conditions in US detention camps was brutal, and he was coerced to utter false confessions. Dergoul had held a variety"
"revealed by the United States the day before. Geoffrey D. Miller Geoffrey D. Miller (born c. 1949) is a retired United States Army Major General who commanded the US detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Iraq. Detention facilities in Iraq under his command included Abu Ghraib prison, Camp Cropper, and Camp Bucca. He is noted for having trained soldiers in using torture, or ""enhanced interrogation techniques"" in US euphemism, and for carrying out the ""First Special Interrogation Plan,"" signed by the Secretary of Defense, against a Guantanamo detainee. Miller was born in Gallipolis, Ohio. He attended Ohio State University"
"Murat Kurnaz Murat Kurnaz (born 19 March 1982) is a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany who was held in extrajudicial detention by the United States at its military base in Kandahar, Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba beginning in December 2001. He was tortured in both places. By early 2002, intelligence officials of the United States and Germany had concluded that accusations against Kurnaz were groundless. According to the BBC, Germany refused to accept him at that time, although the US offered to release him. Kurnaz was detained and abused"
"Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding two Canadian captives in Guantanamo, two teenage brothers, Abdurahman Khadr and Omar Khadr. A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002 The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new captives, all ""high value detainees"" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush. In January 2008 there were approximately 285 detainees. Abdurahman has described himself as the ""black"
"no credible information to support these assertions has ever come to light, the alleged justification for prison ships is primarily to remove the ability for jihadists to target a fixed location to facilitate the escape of high value targets, commanders, operations chiefs etc. The U.S. government set up the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in 2002, a United States military prison located in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. President Bush declared that the Geneva Convention, a treaty ratified by the U.S. and therefore among the highest law of the land, which protects prisoners of war, would not apply to Taliban and al"
"Guantanamo psychiatric ward In addition to the regular camps for detainees held in extrajudicial detention there is a Guantanamo psychiatric ward at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp complex in Cuba. The Department of Defense announced the opening of the psychiatric facility in March 2003. Camp Commandant Geoffrey Miller denied that the opening of the psychiatric facility was solely in response to detainees' suicide attempts. Larry C. James was the chief psychologist in 2003. In April 2008 the Adam M. Robinson, the United States Navy's Surgeon General, wrote that the ""...core psychological health team one psychologist, one psychiatrist, five behavioral nurses"
"for Human Rights and confirmed in ""The Report of the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment"" (2013) being reinforced by eyewitness corroboration. Heather Cerveny Heather N. Cerveny is a service member of the United States Marine Corps. In October 2006, she became the focus of national attention after her report about alleged mistreatment of detainees held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba was leaked to the media. Initially, her claims were rejected by a military investigator Col. Richard C. Bassett, and Cerveny was accused of making a false statement. Later, the Department"
"names of inmates since 2009. The BBC reported on 11 May 2010 that the Red Cross had confirmed its existence to them as well as hearing the accounts of former inmates. Black jail The black jail is a U.S. military detention camp established in 2002 inside Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. Distinct from the main prison of the Bagram Internment Facility, the ""Black Jail"" is run by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and U.S. Special Operations Forces. There are numerous allegations of abuse associated with the prison, including beatings, sleep deprivation and forcing inmates into stress positions. U.S. authorities refuse to"