March 12, 2013: Three attorneys for Guantánamo detainees testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, arguing that indefinite detention and a harsh environment are creating conditions at the facility that amount to inhumane treatment. March 12, 1957: Three American teenage boys who ran away from their home on the base at Guantánamo were…

March 4, 2013: Defense attorneys representing detainees at Guantánamo have discovered audio monitoring and recording units in locations they have discussed confidential aspects of their case with their clients. The discovery comes amid increasing debate about the legality and legitimacy of military trials at Guantánamo. March 10, 2002: Just months after the first detainees arrive at Camp…

February 25, 2013: Civil liberties and media groups, led by The Miami Herald and the American Civil Liberties Union, appealed to the Pentagon’s Court of Military Commissions Review to increase the transparency of legal proceedings at Guantánamo. The appeal comes amid increasing allegations that the U.S. government is using the inaccessiblilty of the naval station in Cuba to censor information about…

The traveling exhibit of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project is now open for viewing at Rutgers’s Mabel Smith Douglass Library in New Brunswick, New Jersey from February 18 to March 29. Rutgers’s undergraduate student newspaper The Daily Targum, the oldest of its kind in the nation, has published an article explaining the role of Rutgers faculty…

February 19, 2013: Guantánamo detainee Walid bin Attash berated the judge of his military commission hearing after guards searched his cell and confiscated confidential correspondence between him and his attorney. February 19, 2002: The Center for Constitutional Rights filed the landmark habeas corpus case Rasul v. Bush to challenge indefinite detention at Guantánamo and the lack of legal…

February 10, 2013: U.S. officials at Guantánamo simulated the arrival of Caribbean refugees to prepare for possible mass migrations from nearby political strife or natural disasters. February 15, 1995: A riot erupted on Caymen Brac after the nearly 1,000 Cuban refugees that had landed on the small Caribbean island were denied asylum. Nearly 900 of these Cuban men, women,…

February 5, 2013: Pre-trial proceedings at Guantánamo for detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri began with a physician’s recommendation on how to conduct a mental examination for a survivor of torture. Al-Nashiri is the alleged planner of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 that left 17 crew members dead and 31 wounded. February 6, 1964: Following Florida’s arrest of a…

Opening at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life Windows Gallery December 13, 2012 and traveling to 9 sites (and counting) across the country through at least 2014, the exhibit explores GTMO’s history from US occupation in 1898 to today’s debates and visions for its future. The exhibit was developed through a unique collaboration among a growing number of…

The Guantánamo Public Memory Project is using innovative technologies to foster dialogue about Guantánamo and the issues the site has come to represent. Visitors to the traveling exhibit are invited to interact with the exhibition by accessing mobile versions of the presentation on their smartphones and sharing their responses via text message. Visitors may listen…

29 January 2013: The U.S. State Department dismantled the special envoy charged with closing Guantánamo despite President Obama’s campaign promise to close the site. 29 January 1993: Almost immediately after the inauguration of President Bill Clinton Haitian refugees began protesting their detention at Guantánamo by refusing food.