Two decades of the world’s most notorious prison.
In 2002, the US opened a prison at its naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The 9/11 attacks had occurred just months before, and the US was capturing hundreds of men in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It wanted a place to hold and question them. So the Bush administration opened Guantánamo and claimed that it existed outside of US and international law.
The detainees didn’t have to be charged with a crime to be imprisoned, and the US could hold them as long as they liked. Читать дальше...