April 27th, 2013: The U.S. military has acknowledged that the number of inmates protesting their detention by refusing food has grown to 100. The development comes amid increasing concerns over the military’s methods of forced feeding. April 27th, 2002: The newly constructed 410-bed facility known as Camp Delta opens to replace Camp X-Ray. Inmates begin to…

The Constitution Project, a non-profit organization that brings together legal and policy experts to foster dialogue about pressing constitutional challenges, has published a comprehensive report examining the treatment of people detained by U.S. forces under the War on Terror. In addition to finding that people were tortured at Guantánamo, the report argues that the base…

April 17, 2013: After a guard force raided an inmate communal area in Camp 6 this past Saturday, the military released a statement saying the response was necessary for the safety of the detainees. U.S. officials claimed that since the beginning of the hunger strike on February 6, there have been two suicide attempts and inmates’…

Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay since 2002, recently spoke about his experience at the facility through an Arabic interpreter. Regarding his experience in the growing hunger strike, he said: “I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose. I can’t describe how painful it…

April 9, 2013:  U.S. government officials have begun contacting the attorneys of inmates at Guantánamo that are being restrained and force-fed with a rubber tube inserted through their nostril. U.S. officials are scurrying to quell the growing hunger strike by restricting media access, inmate’s access to water, and by force-feeding detainees to ensure the strike…

Particularly given its geographic remoteness and public inaccessibility, Guantánamo is both difficult to comprehend and easy to forget about. Before joining the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, I understood GTMO as a product of the ‘War on Terror’ and knew very little about its prior uses.  Over the course of the past year and a half,…

April 4, 2013: As hunger strikes continue to spread throughout the detainee population, foreign governments and international human rights organizations are attempting to send envoys to Guantánamo to ensure prisoners are being treated humanely. Some reports claim as many as 130 out the 166 detainees at Guantánamo are participating in the hunger strike. April 4,…

Nicknamed GTMO, the United States naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has a history that is infamous and yet unknown to most Americans. A new traveling exhibit running April 10 through May 12, 2013 at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Cultural Arts Gallery reveals that history. Developed by more than 100 students from the IU…