USA: Guantánamo, symbol of wider injustice

Index Number: AMR 51/005/2008
Fecha de publicación: 10 enero 2008
Categorías: EE. UU.

Six years after the first detainees arrived in Guantánamo Bay, the US offshore facility remains a global symbol of injustice. It is, however, only one part of a wider detention regime removed from the protection of international law. Hundreds of detainees, for example, remain in indefinite detention without charge or trial as the US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan, without access to lawyers or the courts.