Camp Iguana, which once held juveniles as young as 12, also housed three Chinese prisoners. Most of the detainees in Gitmo were held in Camps five and six. Camps seven and 15 house high-value detainees. Many detainees are unaware that they are so close to the coast. They were flown in blindfolded, and are taken out only for medical care or to meet with their lawyers.
Before they exit and enter the camp, they were subjected to a humiliating search. At Camp six, Nazakat saw three prisoners — two were seated and quiet, and the third, a man in his 50s with a long beard, was wandering around and chanting loudly.
The poem, which appeared under the pen name Al-Rubaish, was withdrawn later. With the departure of US troops from Afghanistan, civil rights groups have been urging Biden to fulfill his pledge to close the prison. But he failed to keep his promise after the US Congress in imposed restrictions on the transfer of detainees. The Bush administration had transferred about detainees out of Guantanamo by the end of , and the Obama administration transferred nearly out of the facility by the beginning of In , five Taliban prisoners were transferred to Qatar.
In February, the US announced that it was conducting an internal review of how to close Guantanamo. Americas Tragic tales of US' Guantanamo Bay prison Not every captive in Guantanamo was a terrorist, many were at wrong place at wrong time when they were arrested, says witness Iftikhar Gilani Bounties and Casio watches Nazakat said the US military officials acknowledged that some prisoners were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Obama failed to keep promise With the departure of US troops from Afghanistan, civil rights groups have been urging Biden to fulfill his pledge to close the prison. Please contact us for subscription options. US killed 70 civilians in airstrike in Syria: report. Yemen rebels claim to intercept US-made spy drone in Marib. EU worried about Russian movements at Ukraine border. The US government has acknowledged torture took place in a number of cases, among them that of Abu Zubaydah , a Palestinian man captured by the US in Pakistan and tortured for years in a series of secret CIA prisons, as detailed in a US Senate report.
Another is Mohammed al-Qahtani, a Saudi whose military charges were dismissed because he had been tortured at Guantanamo but who remains imprisoned despite mental illness.
Human rights advocates and lawyers for detainees say the Biden administration will be under increasing pressure to bring Guantanamo to a close. The White House announced in February that it is conducting an internal review of how to close Guantanamo.
Biden can ask Congress to repeal its prohibitions on Guantanamo detainees entering the US for purposes of serving prison terms. Biden is considering naming a special envoy at the US Department of State for closing Guantanamo, a position created by Obama but eliminated during the Trump administration.
The Pakistani prisoner has been held there since on suspected ties to al-Qaeda, although he has never been charged. Moroccan prisoner Abdul Latif Nasser had been held by the US since without being charged with a crime.
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