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#Guantanamo Bay

The U.S. naval base in Cuba, notorious for the detention facility used to hold individuals outside the protections of domestic and international law. Incidents involve the repurposing of Guantanamo for immigrant detention and ongoing due process violations.

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Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Guantanamo Bay Immigrant Detention: Solitary Confinement and Ill-Treatment

Immigrants transferred to Guantanamo Bay face conditions that Human Rights Watch says may amount to ill-treatment prohibited under international law: isolation for up to 23 hours a day, punitive restraint in a chair, and incommunicado detention. ACLU and CCR lawsuits challenge the offshore detention as unconstitutional and beyond the authority of the Immigration and Nationality Act.