The White House says it intends to shutter the Guantanamo Bay detention center on the U.S. base in Cuba, where most of the 39 men still held have never been charged with a crime. But how or when the administration will carry out the plan remains unclear.
The White House says it intends to shutter the prison on the U.S. base in Cuba, which opened in January 2002 and where most of the 39 men still held have never been charged with a crime. How or when the administration will carry out that plan remains unclear, though early moves to free one prisoner and place five others on a list of those eligible for release have generated optimism among some eager to see it close, including prisoners.
Mohammad and his co-defendants were in court this week for the first time since the start of the pandemic for a hearing on the qualifications of a new judge, Air Force Col. Matthew McCall, to preside over the sprawling death penalty case. It was the 42nd session of pretrial hearings since the arraignment in May 2012.
The administration of then President George W. Bush declared they were the “worst of the worst,” and asserted it could hold the men overseas, without charge as unlawful enemy combatants, not entitled to the full protections of prisoners of war at the sleepy Navy outpost on the jagged southeastern coast of Cuba.
The U.S. would end up holding 779 prisoners at Guantanamo and spend hundreds of millions constructing and operating what today looks more or less like a small state prison, surrounded by razor wire and guard posts at the edge of the shimmering Caribbean Sea. Guantanamo is smaller and quieter now. But Stafford Smith, a founder of the human rights organization Reprieve, says it’s still oppressive. “It’s not so much the physical conditions, it’s the psychological conditions,” he said. “Being told that you’re in Hotel California and you can check out but you can never leave, that psychologically is immensely damaging to people.”
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