In 2002, the US opened a jail at its naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The 9/11 assaults had occurred simply months earlier than, and the US was capturing lots of of males in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It wished a spot to carry and query them. So the Bush administration opened Guantánamo and claimed that it existed outdoors of US and worldwide legislation.
The detainees didn’t need to be charged with against the law to be imprisoned, and the US might maintain them so long as they favored. By 2003, there have been practically 700 males imprisoned in Guantánamo, however there was backlash from world wide. When President Barack Obama took workplace in 2009, he pledged to shut Guantánamo.
However politics rapidly acquired in the way in which. He was capable of lower the jail’s inhabitants however confronted authorized challenges. In the end, no president has been capable of shut Guantánamo as a result of as soon as one thing is created outdoors the legislation, it is virtually unattainable to convey it again contained in the legislation.
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