...overseas brought into the sovereign territory of a nation and released into the general population." But the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base isn't "overseas." According to the Supreme Court, the U.S. maintains "de facto sovereignty" over the...
...foreigners caught up in the post-9/11 sweep of Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries and confined at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Acting on its own, the administration established bare-bones procedures for determining whether the detainees...
...54. In 1995, over the protests of refugee advocates, the U.S. military began sending Haitians housed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba home against their will. In 2004, 13 children and two adults were killed in Afghanistan's southern...
...bank and exploded, killing 88 people and wounding 1,400 others. The last Cubans held in refugee camps at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base boarded a plane for Florida. In 2001, Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted one Libyan, acquitted...
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