Elise Swain

The family of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee wants to stop the United Arab Emirates from forcibly repatriating him to Russia in violation of international law.

Visiting press are forced to turn a blind eye as the military pretends the prison doesn’t exist.

In emails obtained by The Intercept, the State Department made repeated assurances about Saeed Bakhouch’s “appropriate and humane treatment.”

U.S.-brokered transfers to Kazakhstan led to arbitrary detention, former Guantánamo prisoners told The Intercept.

“Miraculously, they still believe in the U.S. justice system and still want to tell their story to a U.S. jury.”

Guantánamo Bay “is the iconic example of the abandonment of the rule of law,” the letter argues.

He was promised his freedom, but, with no U.S. pressure, his host country systematically denied him any semblance of normal life.

Here at The Intercept, we are committed to ruining the holidays.

By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians.

At least four detainees who have not been charged with any crime contracted Covid-19 at the notorious maximum security prison base.