Guantanamo Bay

From RationalWiki

Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a military prison which has existed on the island of Cuba since 2002 in the US-held Guantanamo Bay Naval Base .

It holds prisoners which the United States government feels pose a terrorist threat. In order to avoid the strictures of the Geneva Conventions the US government has classified the prisoners as "enemy combatants" and not as "prisoners of war".

The detention center has been a source of continual disgrace to the United States, and would be an embarrassment to the George W. Bush administration, if they were capable of feeling shame.

[edit] See also

• Arbitrary detention

S T U B (The Pet Goat ate it)