Guantanamo

Though "Too Late" Now, Cables From Secret CIA Black Site Read Like Gina Haspel's "Torture Journaling"

At Historic Habeas Corpus Hearing, Guantanamo's 'Dangerous Experiment in Indefinite Detention' Challenged

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

"The government says my detention is legal because of the indefinite war against terrorism. When terrorism ends, the war will end. So, never."

On Prison's 6,000th Day, Groups Demand Trump "Choose Justice Over Inhumanity" and #CloseGitmo

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A Witness Against Torture protest at NYC City Hall on June 26, 2012. (Photo: Felton Davis/flickr/cc)

"It is outrageous that the U.S. government continues to perpetuate the myth of...

Embracing 'Lawlessness' of Guantanamo, Trump Calls for Expanding Offshore Prison

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Activists outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 11, 2017 marking the 15th anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay prison. (Photo: Susan Melkisethian/flickr/cc)

Trump is giving "new life to a prison that symbolizes America's descent into...

After 16 Years Without Trial, Guantánamo Inmates and Rights Groups Demand End to 'Unconscionable' Imprisonment

'Idiotic': Rights Groups Slam Trump for Reactionary 'Send Him to Gitmo' Threat

Viral Facebook Post Rips Right-Wing Arguments Against Omar Khadr Settlement

Gitmo 2.0: Draft Executive Order Reveals Trump Plan to Expand Offshore Prison

That's It. Eight Years Later, Obama White House Admits Gitmo Won't Close

'Deny Trump Tools to Torture': Progressives Call on Obama to Close Gitmo

Is John Kelly 'Unfit' (or Sadly Suited) to Lead Homeland Security Under Trump?

Trump Fear-Mongers on Gitmo as White House Readies for Additional Transfers

Trump Picks Pro-Surveillance, Tea Party Hawk Mike Pompeo to Lead CIA

Abducted, Tortured, Held 14 Years Without Trial, 'Gitmo Diary' Author Finally Free

As Torture's Mental Toll is Illuminated, Doctors Call for US Accountability

Held 14 Years Without Charge, CIA Torture 'Guinea Pig' Abu Zubaydah Asks for Freedom

Further

This Criminal Act: Navy Nurse First to Refuse to Carry Out Brutal Gitmo Force-Feedings

In the first known instance of U.S. military conscience objection at Guantánamo, a male Navy nurse has refused to continue taking part in the often brutal forced feeding of Gitmo hunger strikers, who consider the practice torture. News of the historic action, reportedly by a Latino captain, came from a Syrian hunger striker who is challenging the policy in court and described the nurse's evolution: "Once he saw with his own eyes that what he was told was contrary to what was actually taking...