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    Because Guantanamo Bay is completely controlled by the U.S. but not actually a part of the United States‚ laws including any regarding human rights ceased to apply there (Friedman 82). According to Ardiente‚ this may be what justified military personnel or others working there to interrogate the way they did. Military doctors have admitted to giving information about detainees’ mental health in order to use it for cooperation of manipulation; the Pentagon has denied such claims (Ardiente 2).

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    1750-0206.2011.00279_1.x Healy‚ G Jackson‚ A.L. (2010). HABEAS CORPUS IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: AN AMERICAN DRAMA. Air Force Law Review‚ 65 263-288. Judicial watch obtains bush defense department documents detailing terrorist threat posed by guantanamo detainees. (2011‚ Mar 02). U.S.Newswire. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/854434733?accountid=32521x Langford‚ B Piret‚ J. M. (2008). Boumediene v. Bush and the Extraterritorial Reach of the US Constitution: A Step Towards Judicial

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    GUANTANAMO BAY: CIVIL RIGHTS IGNORED One of the most debated current events that have had a hold on America and the world are the prisons of Guantanamo Bay. Since the opening of the prisons there have been reported stories of torture on prisoners‚ inmates being force fed and due process rights being taken away. In this essay‚ we will examine Guantanamo Bay from the beginnings‚ to the legal issues by reviewing landmark Supreme Court cases‚ to the world wide opinions and finally the future of GITMO

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    Guantanamo: past‚ present and future The Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay is the oldest U.S. military base still operating outside the U.S. It has been under U.S. control since 1898 but it was not used to hold prisoners from the Afghanistan war until January 2002. Since then‚ hundreds of “law combatants” have been held there against the Geneva Convention and their rights have been removed. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp became a matter of international concern when it was stated that the prisoners

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    Guantanamo Bay Prison The United States government has broken its long lasting tradition of protecting human rights by allowing the mistreatment of prisoners in the Guantanamo bay prison on the island of Cuba [Gitmo]. America has always been a nation that promotes and protects human rights to the rest of the world. The long standing tradition of obeying the values instituted by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has been reversed by Guantanamo Bay. The human rights that the U.S. stands for

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    THE HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE OF GUANTANAMO BAY Human rights are the rights that everybody inherently possess. These rights are protected by various legal principals such as the rules of law and ensure the dignity of all people. However‚ human rights are being violated by countries all over the world‚ even by countries such as the United States who have the national strategy. It has been breaching international covenants and conventions

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    needed a secure place to keep its enemies captured in the “war on terror”. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had already established “black sites”‚ or secret detention centres‚ all over the world. However‚ the Bush administration needed a location outside of international law so they could keep detainees indefinitely while interrogating them without legal intervention. They also needed a location that would not become a target for another terrorist attack. Guantanamo Bay was the ideal location

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    During Aamer’s time at Guantanamo Bay‚ there were many allegations of torture. In letters Aamer wrote‚ he described the forcible cell extraction team‚ who would “beat him up ” while Aamer was suffering kidney trouble. The cell extraction team‚ took his medical necessities‚ such as a blanket to lessen his rheumatism‚ a back-brace‚ pressure socks‚ his toothbrushes‚ sheets‚ shoes‚ his legal documents and his children drawings. There were also allegations that Aamer was made to sleep on concrete when

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    Torture in Guantanamo Bay Mohamed al-Kahtani was a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay who endured numerous disgusting and truly horrifying acts of torture. Being seduced by prostitutes and female officers‚ told to act like a dog and forced to crawl on his hands and feet while barking‚ and forced to urinate himself are just a few examples of the type of life prisoner’s at Guantanamo Bay are living. They are held in solitary confinement‚ while all day and night their lights in the rooms are kept on. Each

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    Since the September 11 terrorist attacks detainees have passed through a prison camp that is known as Guantanamo Bay. Since then‚ there has been an ongoing conversation about the treatment of the detained combatants and many justify the camp under utilitarian grounds. John Mill explains utilitarianism and describes the greatest happiness principle which states that actions are right in as long as they tend to promote happiness. In this paper‚ I will be using the prison camp to argue that utilitarianism

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