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Guantanamo Bay detention camp

A woman stands next to her home which has been reduced to rubble in Irpin, near Kyiv in Ukraine, on May 3. Photo: AP

Human rights

Opinion | How Russia learned from West’s actions in Iraq, Kosovo and Guantanamo Bay

Legal solidarity with Ukraine is certainly right but it raises troubling questions about Western double standards, and how this undermines the rules-based international order the West says it champions.

12 May 2022 - 4:00AMvideocam

Canada

Ex-Guantanamo prisoner sues Canada over ‘role in his detention’

24 Apr 2022 - 7:16AM

United States

US sends home man held for nearly 20 years at Guantanamo

3 Apr 2022 - 5:24AM

Terrorism

Hunting Hambali: bringing ‘Southeast Asia’s Osama bin Laden’ to justice

The Indonesian accused of masterminding the 2002 Bali bombings has been held in Guantanamo Bay for the past 15 years. He remains one of a handful of high-value detainees at the US military prison still considered a high-risk threat to the US.

12 Dec 2021 - 9:50AMvideocam

Hambali, real name Riduan Isamuddin. Photo: EPA/Malaysia Police Department Handout

Afghanistan

On 9/11 anniversary, Afghans blame departed US forces for their woes

The 9/11 attacks prompted a US invasion of Afghanistan and the toppling of its Taliban rulers.

12 Sep 2021 - 4:08AMvideocam

Bali bombing

Bali bombing suspects formally charged after ‘flawed’ arraignment

The three men – an Indonesian and two Malaysians – appeared in a secure courthouse encircled by razor wire in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba amid defence complaints about biased and unskilled interpreters.

1 Sep 2021 - 8:10PM

Bali bombing

Bali bomb case starts in Guantanamo Bay 18 years after capture of suspects

Indonesian prisoner Encep Nurjaman, known as Hambali, and two Malaysians started their arraignment at a hearing at the US base in Cuba

31 Aug 2021 - 4:13AM

Buildings and cars burn after a bomb blast in the tourist site of Kuta, Bali on October 13, 2002. Photo: AFP

Bali bombing

Bali bombing suspects to go on trial in Guantanamo Bay

Encep Nurjaman or Riduan Isamuddin, better known by his nom de guerre Hambali, has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006, alongside Malaysians Mohammed Nazir bin Lep and Mohammed Farik bin Amin.

30 Aug 2021 - 8:58PM

United States

First Guantanamo inmate sent to home country in Biden policy shift

Abdullatif Nasser, was cleared for repatriation by a review board in 2016 but remained at Guantanamo under President Trump

20 Jul 2021 - 12:47AM

Joe Biden

Biden administration launches review aimed at closing Guantanamo prison

Aides involved in internal discussions are considering an executive action to be signed by the US president in the coming weeks or months.

13 Feb 2021 - 6:05AMvideocam

The Office of Military Commissions building in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Photo: AP

Coronavirus vaccine

Coronavirus: US halts plan to give vaccine to Guantanamo Bay prisoners

‘We’re pausing the plan to move forward, as we review force protection protocols,’ Pentagon chief spokesman John Kirby said in a tweet.

31 Jan 2021 - 6:59AM

The Office of Military Commissions building at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Photo: AP

Bali bombing

US charges Indonesian extremist Hambali in 2002 Bali bombings

The bombings of tourist nightclubs in Bali killed 202, while the attack on the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta a year later left 12 dead.

22 Jan 2021 - 2:55PM

Legacy of war in Asia

Letters | The cost of war: leaders lied, people died

Media in all wars engage in massive deception of the public, glorifying war and encouraging citizens to give up their lives for reasons conjured up by lying, immoral politicians and the corporate entities who stand to benefit

20 Dec 2020 - 6:35AMvideocam

Islamic militancy

Trial date set for five alleged 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo

The five will be the first to go on trial in the military commissions established to handle the ‘war on terror’ detainees.

31 Aug 2019 - 9:23PM

Smoke pours from one of the towers of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. Photo: AP

European Union

Guantanamo Bay prisoner sues Lithuania over CIA ‘black site’

Second such case after an EU court ruled last year that Lithuania was involved in a covert US government detainment and interrogation programme.

12 Feb 2019 - 1:08AM

The Lithuanian State Security Department building in Antavilis near Vilnius. File photo: Reuters

US loses ex-Guantanamo inmates after Trump shuts office tracking them

At least one of the inmates has vanished in a terrorist-held part of Syria

14 Nov 2018 - 5:41AM

Islamic militancy

Guantanamo war court is a ‘cluster covfefe’, says al-Qaeda terrorist

Majid Khan, who became a government informant, used a made-up word coined by Donald Trump to describe his convoluted court proceedings.

20 Jul 2018 - 2:13PM

Donald Trump

Guantanamo Bay prisoner released in surprise Trump U-turn

Confessed al-Qaeda member Ahmed al-Darbi has been sent to Saudi Arabia, where he may remain for the rest of his 13-year sentence

3 May 2018 - 9:27PM

Guantanamo Bay’s Detention Centre Zone. Photo: TNS

9/11 suspect ‘punished’ with isolation at Guantanamo Bay

Man accused of helping plot the attacks is said to be on hunger strike to protest against his treatment

22 Apr 2018 - 7:04PM

Guantanamo’s indefinite detainees ‘will die there unless court steps in’

12 Jan 2018 - 11:03PM

United States

American IS suspect to challenge detention by US military

6 Jan 2018 - 6:05AM

The entrance to Camp 5 and Camp 6 at the US military's Guantanamo Bay detention centre, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. An American who fought with Islamic State may eventually be sent there after he challenged his detention by the US military. Photo: AP

Bali bombing

US prosecutor charges Southeast Asians over terror plots

10 Dec 2017 - 10:47PM

The entrance to Camp 5 and Camp 6 at Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Photo: AP

Guantanamo court debates impact of torture on testimony

5 Aug 2017 - 8:20PM

Canada to pay US$8m to former Guantánamo child prisoner

4 Jul 2017 - 9:04PM

Oman

Oman receives 10 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay

16 Jan 2017 - 4:14PM

The entrance to Camp 5 and Camp 6 at the US military's Guantanamo Bay detention centre, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. Photo: AP

Bali bombing

My brother, the ‘Osama bin Laden of Southeast Asia’

29 Oct 2016 - 11:03AMvideocam

A prisoner walks around a communal cellblock in the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photo: AFP

Guantanamo prisoner had surgery to fix damage caused by sodomy, lawyer says

16 Oct 2016 - 10:03PM

Abu Zubaydah, waterboarded 83 times by CIA then hidden from view for 14 years, pleads for freedom

24 Aug 2016 - 8:52AM

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Guantanamo Bay detention camp

The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States military located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in January 2002 by the George W. Bush administration to hold detainees it had determined to be connected with opponents in the "war on terror" after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US.

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9 September, 2024