The Miami Herald has created a continuously updated online presentation of the hunger strike at Guantánamo. In addition to tracking the number of inmates that are participating in the strike, being force fed, and being hospitalized, the chart also provides readers with a glimpse of how the event began. As the Herald explains at the…

A poll recently conducted by The Huffington Post and YouGov suggests that the American public is deeply divided on what to do about Guantánamo. The poll, which can be seen here, asked people where they stood on military tribunals, the U.S. possession of Cuban land, and the inmate population. The results show that many people support the U.S. government’s…

Amid reports that the U.S. military is force feeding inmates at Guantánamo who are refusing food, an article recently published by The Atlantic explores the ethics of what U.S. officials are calling “suicide prevention.” James Hamblin, the author of the article, writes: “Will the United States keep these detainees alive for 12 years against their…

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…

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…

Since its release, the controversial Zero Dark Thirty has been an ongoing source of contention. The film’s depiction of torture in the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden has provoked a multitude of responses, largely inconsistent with party politics that have often framed discourse on the War on Terror. It is arguably Zero Dark Thirty’s…

Liz Ševčenko recently wrote an article for The Guardian on the importance of opening dialogue about Guantánamo, “…Guantánamo is much more than a prison: it’s made up of the thousands of people who worked there, grew up there, and served there, whose stories reveal the many things Gitmo is and can be. Refugees remember Gitmo as both a site of…

  Guantánamo is about people. Mired in the languages of the War on Terror, and previous to that, of relief efforts and military operations, it is a fact easily obscured. Guantánamo has been variously discussed as a ‘detainment centre,’ a ‘prison,’ a ‘military base,’ a ‘camp,’ one full of ‘detainees,’ ‘prisoners,’ ‘refugees,’ ‘soldiers,’ with a…

After reading all of the articles provided at the Guantánamo Public Memory Project website, seeing all the images and hearing all of the testimonies, I feel so entrenched in the site and its situation that I want to take the next personnel flight back stateside. Just like many others who visit, part of me remains…

  Year after year, the U.S. State Department issues an annual report that criticizes the Cuban government for detaining some of its citizens in prison indefinitely, without charging them with crimes or bringing them to trial. But let’s be fair. This criticism applies only to a specific part of Cuba – the 99.9% of the…