On August 30, 2019, a military judge set a trial date of January 11, 2021, for Mohammed's death penalty trial. His trial was further postponed on December 18, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic....Khalid Sheikh MohammedStatusDetainedChildren2RelativesRamzi Yousef (nephew)7 more rows
In Boumediene v. Bush (2008) it was established Guantanamo detainees have a right to habeas corpus and are able to bring petition to U.S courts.
As of January 5, 2017, 55 detainees remained at Guantanamo. By January 19, 2017, at the end of the Obama Administration, the detention center remained open with 41 detainees remaining.
The future of Guantanamo Bay detention camp — and the 39 prisoners still there : NPR.
The "Great Writ" of habeas corpus is a fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment. Translated from Latin it means "show me the body." Habeas corpus has historically been an important instrument to safeguard individual freedom against arbitrary executive power.
§2241. Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Stevens held that U.S. courts did indeed have jurisdiction to hear challenges to the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad in the course of armed conflict and subsequently detained outside the sovereign territory of the United States.
Nearly one in five guards in the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay is a woman. Their job is the same as the men, to guard detainees who don't see them as their equals. "Of course being a female in this specific and unique environment has its limitations and its challenges," one female guard told NBC 6.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons....Summary.DescriptionEnglish: Guantanamo Bay Naval Base has a McDonald's franchise during the Cuban / Haitian refugee crisis in 1994Datecirca 19943 more rows
The five men from Yemen, Somalia and Kenya are among 39 inmates still held by the US at notorious facility in Cuba. The United States has approved the release of five more prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay military facility, although this does not mean they will be leaving the controversial prison anytime soon.
Civilians cannot simply purchase a plane ticket and fly to Guantánamo Bay as a tourist. Visitors must be approved to visit Guantánamo Bay before making the trip. In most cases, visitors are sponsored by an active-duty service member or civilian contractor stationed or living on the naval base.
The United States assumed territorial control over the southern portion of Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Lease. The United States exercises jurisdiction and control over this territory, while recognizing that Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty.
Violations of international law at Guantánamo include illegal and indefinite detention, torture, inhumane conditions, unfair trials (military commissions), and many more. These human rights violations, however, remain unpunished or remedied.