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PLANET PRISON

Trump Admin Detains Foreigners From 26 Countries at Gitmo

Seventy-two foreigners—hailing from every continent except Antarctica—are being held at the notorious military prison.

Erkki Forster

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FANNING THE FLAMES

Trump to Expel Thousands of Migrants to Guantanamo This Week

The president is escalating his mass immigration crackdown as protests in Los Angeles ramp up.

Kenneal Patterson

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THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY…

MAGA Troll Calls For Sending ‘The View’ Hosts to Guantanamo

Far-right influencer Link Lauren’s vicious slapdown follows The Daily Beast reporting that Disney’s CEO had told the show’s hosts they’d better cool it on the Trump-bashing.

Will Neal

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EMPTY HANDED

Trump Plan to Toss Migrants in Gitmo Takes Embarrassing Turn

Even a Fox News reporter conceded the whole project now looks like “an expensive photo op.”

Sean Craig

A photo of US military soldiers carrying a Guantanamo Bay prisoner.
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JUSTICE FOR ALL?

Closing Gitmo Won’t Erase Crimes Committed Against Muslims

The men who’ve been imprisoned there for decades have been convicted of no crime. But even the ones who’ve been released endure the stain of presumed guilt.

Maha Hilal

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GREAT SHAME

When America ‘Forever’ Lost Its Moral Standing in the World

Alex Gibney’s new HBO documentary chronicles the plight of Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi who’s been detained since 2002—making him one of the longest-serving captives in the War on Terror.

Nick Schager

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BEHIND THE WALLS

Guantánamo Court Docs Reveal Talk of Torture, CIA: Report

The declassified transcripts are from secret death-penalty-case sessions.

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War on Terror

The Guantanamo Exception

Violent criminals in America have shockingly high rates of recidivism. So do terrorists. Why does the legal system treat them so differently?

Philip Mudd

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War on Terror

Sketching Gitmo’s Hunger Strikers

As the hunger strike at the military prison drags on, artist Molly Crabapple captures the faces of some of the men detained in the limbo of Guantánamo.

Molly Crabapple

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No-Show

White House Skips Gitmo Hearing

No Obama aide testified at the first such Senate hearing in five years. Daniel Klaidman on Obama’s plan.

Daniel Klaidman

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Closing Time?

Congress’s New Gitmo Push

Miranda Green on what to expect from a Senate hearing on closing Guantánamo Bay, the first since 2009.

Miranda Green

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