Guantanamo Bay detention camp Essays

US History 26 May 2017 Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility Guantanamo Bay is a detention camp that is supposed to hold only the most dangerous people. In 2002 after the 9/11 terrorist attack, George Bush opened the facility to interrogate suspected terrorists to ensure the countries safety. Unfortunately, at this point in society the United States arrests people and takes them here without any court hearing or trial and supposedly even tortures them (Nolen 1). Guantanamo Bay, (also known as GITMO)

Guantanamo Bay: Should we close it? I. Description of the issue: As a result of the Attacks of al Qaeda ant he Taliban, the United States is detaining prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. However, according to critics, the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are being held unlawfully and have been deprived of rights entitled to them under the U.S. Constitution and Treaties of the United States. Indeed, President Barack Obama on Jan. 22, 2009 signed an Executive Order to close the infamous

keep the Guantanamo Bay prison open is the first step in America’s road to violence, oppression, and torture. On January 31st, 2018, Trump signed an executive order to keep the Guantanamo Bay open to load up the bay with people whom Trump calls,“some bad dudes.” Trump plans to pack the bay with more terrorists and criminals, most likely, those to be caught working with ISIS. This decision, one that will destroy America’s reputation, goes against Barack Obama’s campaign, as closing Guantanamo was one

Guantanamo Bay: A Perpetual Stain on the U.S. Human Right Record When current President Barack Obama took to the campaign trail back in 2008, one of his largest and most poignant campaign promises was the closure of the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The facility has been condemned not only by our current president, but by the United Nations during a review of Human Rights in the United States. In addition to the concerns over treatment of detainees, operation of the facility is incredibly

Guantánamo Bay is sometimes referred to as Gitmo and is located on the coast of Cuba. The base sits on the 45-Square mile portion of Cuba that the United States is leasing from them. The contract that was signed between the US and Cuba, is that it can only be ended based on mutual agreement between the two. Gitmo has a very different set of rules and rights for prisoners held there, purely based on the fact that they are not located on US soil. Because they’re not on our land, they are not obligated

Many people know what the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is, but very few people actually know what happens there. Guantanamo Bay, also known as “Gitmo,” is often thought of as the place where terrorists go. What people don’t know, is how these people are being treated and being stripped of their rights as humans. There have been quite a few allegations of torture, abuse, and inhumane acts being committed to these prisoners. Even though they are prisoners, and possibly terrorists, they still have

Have the rights of individuals been breached in Guantanamo Bay? And if they are, how are their rights being breached? Para on basic info of camps There is plenty of evidence to suggest that United States detention centres such as Guantanamo Bay are breaching the rights of individuals who are detained there. Reports from the Red Cross, other organisations and released prisoners show that detainees are often subject to violent interrogation and torture, whereas the United States administration

Following 9/11, there was a steady increase in detention without charge, which violated the concept of the right to a fair trial, long considered to be a fundamental human right and enshrined in American law. When the United States government introduced a preventative detention program, 1182 people were detained in the first seven weeks of the program alone and around 5000 people, mainly Muslims or Arabs, have been detained in total. The majority of those detained were held on vague anonymous accusations

Guantanamo Bay has also been stated to as Guantánamo or GTMO which fronts on Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. When first opened in 2002 its purpose was to detain extremely dangerous people, to interrogate detainees in an ideal setting, and to prosecute detainees for war crimes. Which is highly understandable

Naval Base, Guantanamo, Cuba. Now, only eighty men remain. A highly controversial debate surrounding this camp is whether or not closing Gitmo – as the prison came to known – is justifiable and whether or not it should be done. There is one simple answer to this argument. The closing of the Prison for Alleged Terrorists is not justifiable, or reasonable, and therefore should not be done. For a nation currently at war with terrorists and terrorist organizations, closing Guantanamo would be malign

opening of Guantanamo Bay for detainment of foreign suspects. Guantanamo Bay has made many headlines for its practices of the inhumane treatment of detainees, some of whom turned out to be innocent. This negative coverage was well justified as more was learned about the conditions and formation of the camp. This paper will look at the how the expansion of wartime presidential power in response to September 11 attacks led to the formation of Guantanamo Bay as we know it today. Guantanamo Bay had a relatively

were mistreated and tortured? Detainees in Camp Delta face these in their everyday life. Camp Delta is located at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. America set the camps up in 2002 to hold foreign terror suspects captured during the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Detainees were first kept in an improvised facility called Camp X-Ray which was replaced by a more permanent structure, Camp Delta, in 2003. Security at Camp Delta is tight there are razor wire, guard

Torture is the action of willingly hurting a person psychologically or physically. The use of torture by individuals, groups, and authorities has been going on from ancient times until today. In the 4th Century, voices started being raised against the use of torture. In fact, well-known philosopher and scientist, Aristotle, revealed the downfalls of torture, “those under compulsion are as likely to give false evidence as true, some being ready to endure everything rather than tell the truth, while

to the country. This does not include the amount of people that tried to enter the country by boat, as Australia does not allow refuge the those who try to enter their state unofficially. Substantive amounts of criticism have arisen about the detention camps that this State set up, specifically on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and on the

had one thing in common they're religion. All of the detainees in Guantanamo bay detention camp were all Muslim. At the time of 13th February 2004 775 detainees were present. 99% of whom were innocent men. Who just like you and I were living a normal life but one day they were captured and next thing you know they're in a interrogation room. All of those men have experienced torture at some point of being detained in guantanamo bay. Torture can be sexually, mentally, physically. All the detainees

require (Galloway). The guards stationed at Guantanamo Bay suffer greatly from PTSD. A documentary by VICE News interviewed two guards from Camp Seven, a top-secret detention center that holds fourteen high-value detainees, including four involved in the 9/11 attacks. Camp Seven is unknown to most and not mentioned to anyone not deployed there. This was the first time anyone spoke up about the post-traumatic stress disorder they suffered from coming out of Camp Seven. The documentary focused on one

The Salem Witch Trials, which took place between February 1692 to May 1693 in Colonial Massachusetts, was a series of trials and prosecutions of many innocent lower class and upper class men and women being accused of practicing “witchcraft.” These prosecutions resulted in the death of twenty people, 19 hung, and 1 pressed to death. In The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, he focuses on the atmosphere of the individuals that were falsely accused of witchcraft; moreover, he gives his audience the

In discussions of torture, one controversial issue has been whether torture is an effective mean to gain information from terrorists. On the one hand, many people would argue that torture is a very effective mean to gain information. On the other hand, there is a large amount of people who contends that torture is not the only means to gain the same information. My own view is that there are better ways to gain information from terrorists other than torturing them. I disagree with torture being an

abused (Knowles, 2007). In June of 1992, Bill C-86 was introduced with the intention of tightening up the immigration and refugee system (Knowles, 2007). The new system required fingerprints of refugee applicants to discourage welfare fraud, harsher detention procedures, public hearing for refugee cases, and deportations without hearings and streamlined the severely taxed refugee determination system (Knowles, 2007). In 1994, the Liberal government created a new department called “Citizenship and Immigration

about the war in Afghanistan as well as a map that tracked thousands of unexplained Iraqi deaths. WikiLeaks has exposed the secret terror behind the Afghanistan war and has even uncovered the inhumane treatment prisoners received in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. While the United States government claims that these files released by WikiLeaks were available on a computer