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Highlights

Who's force-fed

Herald unmasks 23
Interactive

Hunger strike tracker
Pop Culture

Guantánamo in theater, books and music
Who's still held

Links to the files of the last 166 captives
Herald Video

Pentagon's iconic photos stirred protest
Prison guide

12-year evolution
By the numbers

The captives, costs, court, and more

IN THE CAMPS

Judge: Searching Guantánamo detainees’ genitals impedes attorney meetings

A changing of the soldier guards at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012.

A federal judge in Washington issued a sharply worded order that found guards’ searches of Guantánamo detainees’ genitals discouraged attorney-client meetings. 1373583536

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo: 2 detainees quit hunger strike; calm in communal prison

Two Guantánamo captives have quit their hunger strike, the military said Thursday, reporting the first dip in the prison camps protest and a cessation of clashes between guards and prisoners that coincides with the Ramadan holiday.
The CIA and a secret vacuum cleaner

How the accused 9/11 mastermind worked on designing a better vacuum cleaner while in CIA custody, to keep him sane. 1373568618
HUNGER STRIKE

Feinstein, Durbin ask Obama to halt Guantánamo forced-feedings

Two leading Democratic senators on Wednesday asked President Barack Obama to order the Pentagon to stop routinely force-feeding hunger strikers at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo and adopt a model that feeds out of medical necessity, like in the federal prison system.
HUNGER STRIKE

Rapper’s graphic video puts spotlight on Guantánamo forced-feeding at Ramadan

A London legal groups’s advocacy efforts expands with a video starring rapper Mos Def playing the role of a detainee being force-fed.

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In the Courts
Guantánamo Special Coverage

US SUPREME COURT

Justices reject Padilla, Guantánamo appeals

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up any of seven Guantánamo detainee cases, and also refused to...
War court

Pentagon charges former U.S. resident at Guantánamo in terror plot

The Pentagon’s war crimes prosecutor proposes to put a graduate of a suburban Baltimore high school ...
WAR COURT

Guantánamo judge won’t subpoena Yemeni leader

The chief military commissions judge refused a defense request to order Yemen’s embattled leader, now ...
WAR COURT

State Department: Guantánamo lawyers can’t question Yemeni leader

Pentagon lawyers for a Guantánamo captive want to get sworn testimony from the Yemeni leader, now in N...
GUANTANAMO

Alleged bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemeni leader

The motion to depose Ali Abdullah Saleh was under seal at the Pentagon Tuesday; the Yemeni president is in ...
Judge dismisses ex-captive's damage suit

A federal judge has dismissed a damages claim by former Guantánamo captive Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al ...
CAMP JUSTICE

No 9/11 trial this year at Guantánamo war court
Pentagon announces trial of alleged Cole mastermind on new Guantánamo website

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, 46, a former Saudi millionaire, faces the death penalty in al Qaida’s suicide...
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Who's still being held at Guantánamo

Here is a comprehensive list of who is still held at the Guantánamo detention center in Cuba. McClatch...
EXCLUSIVE | NAVY BASE

Navy plans $40 million fiber-optic link to Guantánamo base

The $40 million project will put an underwater cable from the base in southeast Cuba through the Windward P...
GUANTANAMO

Base DJs riff Fidel Castro for fun, not profits
Web Extra | A prison camps primer

The Pentagon has built a series of facilities at Guantánamo Bay since it inaugurated its offshore dete...
Environment

Guantánamo is going green

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo ...
WAR ON TERROR

Guantánamo: the most expensive prison on earth
CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare

A recently released, and brutally honest, look at the run-up to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Operation focuse...
Guantanamo

Military feeding captives day and night in Ramadan

For all but 46 of the 171 captives, this year marks a decade of Ramadans at Guant¨¢namo. Military...
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