A US Navy medical officer has refused to participate in forced feedings at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Abu Wael Dhiab, who has been held at Guantanamo since 2002, recently revealed the act of rebellion while speaking to his attorney. Like many of his fellow detainees, Dhiab is currently part a long-running hunger strike meant to draw […]
The United States moved another step closer to shutting down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp this morning, announcing that it had finished relocating the ethnic Uighur Chinese nationals who had been detained there for around a decade. The Pentagon said that it was releasing the final three Uighur detainees to Slovakia, which has agreed to […]
The major general who was the first commander of the US detention facility in Guantánamo Bay has written an editorial in the Detroit Free Press urging Congress to close the 11-year-old facility, which has been criticized for keeping international suspects in legal limbo for years. The prison should never have been opened, writes Maj. Gen. […]
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