USA: Guantánamo: A decade of damage to human rights and 10 anti-human rights messages Guantánamo still sends

Index Number: AMR 51/103/2011
Date Published: 16 December 2011
Categories: USA

Guantánamo continues to be a location for indefinite military incarceration and occasional military commission trials. There are individuals still detained who should be brought to justice on charges of responsibility in relation to the 11 September 2001 attacks. Currently, however, those accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks and other serious crimes face capital trial at Guantánamo before military commissions that do not meet international fair trial standards. Amnesty International urges the USA to close this detention facility and to adopt an approach to countering terrorism that incorporates full respect for its international human rights obligations.