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Guantanamo Bay facility page rev. 18 Nov 2008
November 2008: "Guantanamo Bay and Its Aftermath: U.S. Detention Practices and Their Impact on former Detainees." This report, produced in partnership by UCBerkeley and the Center for Constitutional Rights, includes the findings of a study of former detainees who were held in U.S. custody in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and recommendations for establishing an independend, non-partisan commission to study U.S. intelligence detention. For an article accompanying the report's release, click here.
August 2008: "How to Close Guantanamo: Blueprint for the Next Administration," a report from Human Rights First. HRF lays out specifics for closure of the facility in three phases: during the next administration's first month, its first six months, and its first year.
25 June 2008: Ken Gude's report, "Closing Guantanamo," is now available in .pdf form. The report incldes a summary history of the facility, with categorization of its current detainees, and includes Gude's 5-phase plan for its closure. (A Center for American Progress project.)
June 2008: Human Rights Watch has released a downloadable report: "Locked Up Alone: Detention Conditions and mental Health at Guantanamo," documenting the harsh conditions in the various “camps” at the detention center, in which approximately 185 of the 270 detainees are housed, conditions . Summary of the report is available on HRW's website.
Washington Post: Guantanamo Bay Timeline. Includes links to databases for "All Known Detainees" and "Detainees Charged by Military Commissions," (including further links, e.g. to charging documents), as well as links to further information about significant events and persons named in the timeline and Guantanamo-related processes. A rich source of information.
May 2008. Vanity Fair article, "The Green Light" by Phillipe Sands, establishing White House and Bush Administration approval of brutal interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, techniques that demonstrably migrated to Iraq and Abu Ghraib and mirrored the treatment meted out at other U.S. detention facilities around the world.
14 April 2008. The New Yorker article, "Camp Justice" by Jeffrey Toobin, reviewing the over 5-year history of the G'Bay detention camp, up through its latest transformation into the location of military commission trials.
25 Feb 2008. Letter signed by 34 national bar associations from all over the world, calling for immediate closing of the Guantanamo Bay facility and repatriation of Omar Khadr, a Canadian imprisoned there for an event that occured when he was 15 years old.
7 Feb 2008. New report by Prof. Mark Denbeaux and his associates and colleagues at Seton Hall University School of Law. "Interrogation and Videotaping of Detainees in Guantanamo" includes documentation for the report's premise that more than 24,000 interrogations have been conducted at Guantanamo Bay and that each of them has been videotaped. Some of the video tapes have been destroyed, as revealed by the military's meticulous records. See Seton Hall U. press release with summary of the project's findings; note implications for impending 9/11 military tribunal proceedings.
Report on Guantanamo Detainees: "A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data" by Mark Denbeaux, Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law and Joshua Denbeaux, Esq., (counsel to two Guantanamo detainees), et. al.
Sen. Feinstein op-ed: Close Guantanamo Now
Jan. 2007. ACLU publication of (redacted) FBI reports and correspondence of interrogation methods and detention conditions at Guantanamo Bay facility.
11 July 2005. Reporter at Large, The New Yorker: "The Experiment" by Jane Mayer, in which she explores the question: "The military trains people to withstand interrogation. Are those methods being misused at Guantanamo?" |
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