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Guantanamo’s 10th anniversary Human rights groups are organizing events to mark the 10th anniversary of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while detainees are engaging in peaceful demonstrations.
Jan. 1, 2009
A satellite image shows Guantanamo Bay prison. While campaigning for president, Barack Obama pledged to close the camp, but moves in that direction have effectively been abandoned.
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May 15, 2007
A guard sits in a tower overlooking the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The prison camp has been at the center of the debate over the treatment of prisoners held by the U.S. in the battle against terrorism.
Brennan Linsley
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AP
Early 2002
Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees sit in a holding area under the surveillance of U.S. military police at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay.
Shane T. McCoy
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AFP
Oct. 9, 2007
Military personnel check cells at Camp 5, the maximum-security facility at Guantanamo. Many detainees have been there since 2002.
Brennan Linsley
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AP
Dec. 4, 2006
A detainee peers through a hole used to pass food into cells at Camp Delta at Guantanamo. In June 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 that the military commission system for Guantanamo Bay violated U.S. and international law and that the Geneva Conventions applied to detainees.
Brennan Linsley
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AP
Dec. 6, 2006
A shackled detainee, clasping paperwork, is escorted by two U.S. military personnel to an annual review board hearing inside the Camp Delta facility. In February 2006, a U.N. report recommended the closure of Guantanamo.
Brennan Linsley
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AP
Jan. 19, 2009
A sketch of Canadian defendant Omar Khadr by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin is displayed inside a hangar used for media operations during a hearing at the U.S. military commissions court at Guantanamo Bay. Khadr was accused of killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade during a battle in Afghanistan in 2002, when the Toronto native was 15.
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Reuters
Jan. 20, 2009
A U.S. sailor in the lobby of the U.S. naval station headquarters at Guantanamo Bay.
Brennan Linsley
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 15, 1998
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld confirmed on Dec. 27, 2001, that the United States was planning to turn part of the Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a detention center for al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners. The base is America's only military installation on communist soil.
Colin Braley
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Reuters
Aug. 25, 2004
A U.S. soldier stands guard atop a tower at Camp Delta.
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Reuters
Jan. 27, 2002
Donald H. Rumsfeld, center, then secretary of defense, exits Camp X-Ray, a site holding al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees inside the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay. The first group of 20 detainees arrived at Camp X-Ray in January 2002.
J. Scott Applewhite
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AP
Oct. 2, 2007
A detainee moves from one room to another inside Camp One at the Guantanamo detention facility. On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that prisoners should have a right to challenge their detention in U.S. federal courts through habeas corpus petitions.
Chip Somodevilla
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Getty Images
June 30, 2004
A detainee, his prosthetic leg on the floor below him, sleeps inside his cell at Camp Five, the maximum-security detention and interrogation facility at Guantanamo.
Andres Leighton
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AP
Aug. 22, 2004
Army Col. David McWilliams shows reporters the courtroom of the military commissions' building at Guantanamo Bay. Combatant status review tribunals started for the detainees in August 2004.
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Reuters
July 13, 2006
Friar Louis Vitale, left, and Toby Blome of San Francisco protest during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. They objected to the George W. Bush administration's plan to set up military commissions to try detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. In September 2006, the Military Commission Act passed Congress.
Melina Mara
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The Washington Post
Jan. 22, 2009
President Obama signs a series of executive orders pertaining to the detention camp as retired generals and admirals look on in the Oval Office of the White House. Obama banned the use of certain CIA interrogation techniques. He also ordered the closure of the camp, but the administration has not followed through.
Joshua Roberts
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Bloomberg
Jan. 22, 2009
The signing of the 2009 executive orders fulfilling Obama's pledge to end what he called torture and to abolish the Guantanamo facility. After the administration backed off this year on plans to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in federal court in the United States, the move to close the prison was effectively abandoned.
Larry Downing
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Reuters
April 19, 2010
An American flag flies over the detention centers at Camp Delta.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 19, 2010
The military detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
Bill O’Leary
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The Washington Post
April 19, 2010
Building AV624 was renovated for more than $2 million to house expected visitors who never came, after the military trials were moved to another part of the island.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 20, 2010
A view of the now closed and abandoned Camp X-Ray.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 19, 2010
An iguana casts his shadow on the sniper barrier as it climbs up a fence at the detention center at Camp Delta.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
Jan. 10, 2012
Members of the group Witness Against Torture protest against the Guantanamo detention camp along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Larry Downing
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Reuters
Jan. 10, 2012
Amnesty International activists, dressed in orange jumpsuits similar to those worn by prisoners at the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, demonstrate next to a model of the Statue of Liberty in Paris over the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison.
Joel Saget
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AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 11, 2012
A metro bus rider in Washington, D.C., looks out at the passing activists from Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International and other organizations who are protesting the continuing use of Guantanamo Bay to detain prisoners without trial and the use of torture. Protesters initially gathered at Lafayette Square near the White House and marched with a police escort to the Supreme Court.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Jan. 11, 2012
Activists from Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International and other organizations gather in front of the Supreme Court to protest the continuing use of Guantanamo Bay to detain prisoners without trial and the use of torture.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Jan. 11, 2012
"Bo Yoha" (nickname and only name he would give), with flag covering face, is among activists from Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International and other organizations protesting the continuing use of Guantanamo Bay. "Hopefully, this is a way to get justice, so people [Guantanamo detainees] can have a fair change at being able to have freedom," said Yoha of the protest.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Jan. 11, 2012
Mary Evelyn O'Neill, 6, rides on the shoulders of her resting father, Patrick O'Neil, as activists from Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International and other organizations protest the continuing use of Guantanamo Bay. The father O'Neill, who comes to this protest annually, said, "We come with the hope that Guantanamo will close. We're in a dark period in American history, the worst since McCarthyism in terms of honoring human rights."
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Jan. 11, 2012
Activists from Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International and other organizations protest the continuing use of Guantanamo Bay.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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The Washington Post
Jan. 11, 2012
Judith Kelly of Arlington is among the activists from Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International and other organizations who are protesting the continuing use of Guantanamo Bay.
Jahi Chikwendiu
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