Guantanamo
Controversial Cuban facility
Guantanamo is a bay and province at the southeastern tip of Cuba, site of a U.S. naval base established in 1903.
Since 2002, the base has housed a detention facility for terrorism suspects, operating outside normal legal jurisdiction: The detainees were held at Guantanamo for years without trial.
The name has become shorthand for indefinite detention and controversial interrogation practices.
Deliberate infliction of suffering
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- enhanced interrogationEuphemism for abusive questioning
- waterboardingControlled asphyxiation interrogation technique
- Geneva ConventionsWartime humanitarian treaties
abuse · rendition · due process · international law · war on terror · civil liberties · extrajudicial · accountability
Shore facility for warships
- military baseArmed forces facility
- leaseTemporary use contract
- CubaCaribbean island country
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
installation · outpost · jurisdiction · enclave · compound · facility · garrison · perimeter
Imprisonment without set duration
- detaineesPeople held in custody
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
- orange jumpsuitPrisoner's standard attire
- hunger strikeProtest through refusing food
force-feeding · Gitmo · legal limbo · unlawful combatants · enemy combatants · habeas corpus · detention facility · released
Safe anchorage for ships
Military personnel collectively
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- guardsProtectors or watchmen
- commanderPerson with authority over others
- joint task forceUnified multi-organization team
military police · uniform · interrogators · personnel · deployment · rotation · escort · security
torture
Deliberate infliction of suffering
- human rightsInalienable personal freedoms
- enhanced interrogationEuphemism for abusive questioning
- waterboardingControlled asphyxiation interrogation technique
Geneva Conventions · abuse · rendition · due process · international law · war on terror · civil liberties · extrajudicial · accountability · transparency
naval station
Shore facility for warships
- military baseArmed forces facility
- leaseTemporary use contract
- CubaCaribbean island country
territory · installation · outpost · jurisdiction · enclave · compound · facility · garrison · perimeter · watchtower
indefinite detention
Imprisonment without set duration
- detaineesPeople held in custody
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
- orange jumpsuitPrisoner's standard attire
hunger strike · force-feeding · Gitmo · legal limbo · unlawful combatants · enemy combatants · habeas corpus · detention facility · released · transferred
harbor
Safe anchorage for ships
coastline · waterfront · cove · port · waters · shoreline · tropical
troops
Military personnel collectively
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- guardsProtectors or watchmen
- commanderPerson with authority over others
joint task force · military police · uniform · interrogators · personnel · deployment · rotation · escort · security
- Cuba-US RelationsCuban embargo, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of Pigs, trade embargo, normalization
- Cuban PlacesHavana, Trinidad, Bay of Pigs
- Cuban GeographyHavana, provinces, regions, municipalities
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- 2000siPhone, Wii, MySpace, YouTube, Hurricane Katrina
- military prisonsmilitary prison, military brig, brig, stockade, Leavenworth
Guantanamodue process
Guaranteed judicial fairness
habeas corpus · fair trial · constitutional protection · judicial review · Miranda rights
GuantanamoGeneva Conventions
Wartime humanitarian treaties
humane treatment · human rights · rehabilitation · amnesty · restorative justice
- Guantanamo BayUS military installation, Cuba