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Obama renews bid to shut down Guantanamo prison
President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to renew a push to close the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, amid a growing hunger strike by inmates at the controversial jail. Calling the prison a legal “no man’s land,” Obama told a White House news conference he did not want any inmates…
Guantanamo hunger strikers in lockdown after secret, pre-dawn cell raid
U.S. soldiers reportedly raided communal cellblocks at Guantanamo Prison in Cuba and hustled hunger striking inmates at gunpoint into single, maximum security cells on Saturday. According to the Miami Herald, prison authorities conducted the maneuver only hours after International Commitee of the Red Cross personnel left the island and under…
Lawyers call for end to ‘humanitarian crisis’ at Guantanamo prison
Lawyers for detainees at Guantanamo prison called for the US to show concrete steps towards closing the facility on Tuesday, citing a “humanitarian crisis” at the controversial jail. “The situation is dire,” said lawyer Omar Farah of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who represents a Yemeni detainee, at a meeting…
‘Hotel Hell’ manager now a Guantanamo prison supervisor
The man in charge of the Pentagon office that runs the military tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay prison was once featured on a Fox reality show that highlighted his mismanagement of an upstate New York hotel. According to The Huffington Post, John Imhof, current head of the Office of Military…
Obama still determined to close Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON — The White House insisted Monday that President Barack Obama was determined to close Guantanamo Bay, despite failing to do so by the war on terror camp’s 10th anniversary this week. Obama declared within a few hours of taking office in January 2009 that he would shutter the camp…
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