The First Report To Expose Guantanamo Torture

Guantanamo Bay (2003): The United States has been accused of gross human rights violations for its policies at Guantanamo Bay. We gain unprecedented access to this controversial camp.
Terry and Beverley Hicks scrutinise a grainy video intensely. They're hoping to catch a rare glimpse of their son, David, who has been imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for over 15 months. Like the other detainees, he is being held in legal limbo: denied prisoner of war status and not charged with any crime. At Camp Delta, an American guard shows us around a small wire cage where inmates like David spend the majority of their time. It measures just 2.4 m by 2 m. Floodlights remain on 24 hours a day and prisoners are denied all access to the outside world. Even boys in their early teens are held in these conditions and 17 detainees have attempted suicide. America insists that only "the worst of the worst" are imprisoned at Camp Delta but this view is challenged by other governments. "Most of the people detained were cannon fodder," claims Pakistani Spokesman Asad Ahyauddin. "The White House's position is that there is no right of any court to determine the lawfulness of their detention," complains Joe Marguiles, lawyer for the detainees. "They can be held at the unfettered discretion of the United States military for as long as the military sees fit." America's willingness to discard long held convention have caused distrust and concern. How can the world trust a process it cannot see?
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[@ozChizzle]

Holding juveniles under the age of 16 in Guantanamo Bay? What a world we live in.

[@MultiTheQueen]

i love how suddently the geneve war convention never happened?

[@Zappappappappa]

The UN has ignored every instance of war crimes when perpetrated by a fully developed nation. China is the worst offender and has been for almost eighty years now yet most people don't even know that they have over two million Chinese Uighur Muslims in the Xinjiang Reeducation camps. It's absolutely useless.

[@4TheRecord]

They call it "American Cuba" but the reality is its Occupied Cuban territory which means anyone there is not protected by the Constitution or subject to United States Law. If it really belonged to America it would come under US Law and the prisoners would easily be transfered to the US. American's don't see themselves as the occupiers but its common fact that America does just that in many parts of the world. It seems likely Guantanamo Bay is being used as a prison to delay its handover.

[@MarsHalekGuitar]

There has to be a basis for detaining human beings, and it cannot be indefinitely and without trial. Some of these people were in the wrong place at the wrong time, or turned in by somebody who had something to gain. Some of them are innocent, or not that great of a threat. The system Bush set up did not care one way or the other about any of that. There also have to be standards for the way people are treated when imprisoned, even when they have been proven guilty.

[@miekadegerness67]

This is just Nasty Cruel Mean and inhuman To Do this Hateful act To another Human Being . To Treat Another Human Being So Cruel Tearing a Family Apart . Family Doesn't Know if The Loved is Alive or Dead Then send these Men to Foreign Countries where they Don't have Family .Shame on the USA. Treat Others the way You want to Be Treated !!

[@TrumanCrumpx]

I didn't think that the 9/11 masecre shouldn't've of gone without consequences to the middle east, but it's just been out of control and we just need to get along with eachother.

[@932dave]

I'm not arguing Saddam was a horrible dictator. But we toppled his regime back in 2003, and then stuck around for the next 9 years. And by the end of that, Iraqi's were not dancing in the streets. Iraqi's were hopeful that America was actually there to help them at the beginning, many years later they new that was not the case.

[@932dave]

Multinational oil companies already have access to Canadian oil, We don't have to invade them because their oil is already traded on the open market. Saddam was a little less willing to sell his country's oil to the rest of the world, so Multinational Corporations basically hire the U.S. to install a proxy government that will make policies in their favor. This kind of thing has happened many times before Look up "Guatemala and United Fruit", it is a perfect example

[@Dreamiinc]

We used to fight for what was right. For the peoples rights. For the greater good. Now im stuck with the question, What are we really fighting for? We used to fight with our hearts and spirit. Now all i see in war is strict emotions. We dont fight for the better of our world anymore we fight because our emotions get the best of us. Whats the point of protecting us if the government is actually killing us slowly. Just a matter of time before our once great U.S falls.Till that day comes i remain 1

[@Sh0nin]

@911insidejob81 It's been in the process of closing for over a year now and 550 prisoners have been released, with 180 remaining. It's hard finding country's to accept them and even then they only accept 2-3 at a time. A memorandum was issued 6 months ago by the president to transfer remaining detainees to Thomson Correctional Center. It's been closed for a while now. I don't know how everyone here can be so passionate about this and ignorant of it at the same time.

[@shahid812]

the people that do this are truly EVIL. WHAT GOES AROUND MUST COME AROUND. ..

[@GREGmihos]

@digitalbeat666 your other comment,which was for some reason deleted, is the exact truth of what is really happening in today's society...im glad to see that there are some people left with this way of thinking...

[@Beyond_Belief534]

If i made next to zero sense why do you then assume to know what I am saying? If these men are guilty of a crime then give them a fair trial Do you know what empathy is? Try, if you are capable to imagine If your country was invaded by a foreign power, your home destroyed and your loved ones brutalized and humiliated without any justice. How would you feel? Compliant? Or would you defend your country and your people? Would that choice make you a terrorist? Would your family still love you?

[@benoitdidnotdoit]

so if someone is 15 they can do whatever they want and they arent terrorists is that what ur saying?

[@Donkens]

@AJacks83 Yes it is, and it's even worse when they don't get a chance to face the trial of what they've done. Trust me, it's alot of innocent people in there, most of them are!

[@ModernProspector]

Sources?

[@robbysharolaid]

I hate to say it but, we may not have been acountry for the longest time but America will get what it deserves. And I know America is not perfect, but karma is a bitch.

[@chrik25]

Everyone should get a trial to prove that they are guilty or not. This is so wrong.

[@lorawoodski6ll44]

tell that to other Countries, Gitmo Up and Running Full Swing - Crimes Against Humanity - I am more worried about Human Traffickers and since we now know the ring includes over a million people. and HEADS OF GOVERNMENT AND MSM ARE INVOLVED, of course they wanted to close Gitmo. All part of the Agenda to get Sheeples to War and Divide Each Other Again !!! Wake Up People !!!!

[@robertrishel3685]

It is much worse than just wrong...

[@glenb1426]

Enemy combatants have no rights under our Constitution. They are ENEMY SOLDIERS!

[@robyncook5255]

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[@deebhoymcw2120]

@@lorawoodski6ll44 😂😂😂😂😂

[@deltablue6618]

The military industrial complex really is the worst aspect of government.

[@lookintothesky123]

Under 16? That's heartbreaking

[@amirbiscevic8944]

All these guards should be held accountable for crime against humanity

[@mouricesaidi5348]

Not guards but the system.

[@YourTurnCutie]

Cry

[@910jm]

like how your uncles touch children???????

[@chelllll]

Justice without a trial is not justice...

[@PSTRIPPLEE]

When a country is runned by a corporation there will never be peace in this world. Quoted by Pstripple

[@dclaver2]

I hate that they say how nice we are treating these people even though they are tortured, given no trial, and no human rights.

[@n86md]

For those people who give orders to do all that things to the prisoners...who is gonna prison them?

[@LB-uo7xy]

No one. You must be dreaming if you think sanctioned psychopaths are ever going to see any justice.

[@EXHellfire]

A lot of the logic they use is troublesome, because the Geneva convention pretty much makes it so that if, say, country x and country y are at war and collect each other's soldiers as pows, if the war ends, then that's it, the pows are released and sent back home. Yet this camp's very existence suggests that America doesn't feel that the war is over at all, even if the red cross thinks it ended. So then, even if the war is over and America won, why does it have any right to keep those prisoners, using the excuse that "they might rise again and be trouble again"? That's a liability inherent in any war's resolution...

[@lindada1111]

It's scared boomers and money goblins... they forgot evolution and brainwashed puppets support them too

[@LB-uo7xy]

They get around the Geneva suggestion by calling the guys detainees and not POWs.

[@mouricesaidi5348]

that military girl gaurd had something to say but was feared

[@ScorpioBornIn69]

This is a prison that is made and should be used for the worst of the worst both domestic and foreign; gangbangers, drug cartels, armed robbers, terrorists, rapists, murderers, molesters and other violent criminals. Also, corrupt politicians who betray, lie and deceive should be sent here for acts of high treason.

[@jackiebaron]

@bigreddawg91 How are they "known" terrorists? Name a single Guantanamo prisoner who has been tried and found guilty of ANY act of terrorism. ONE CASE! It should be quite simple to delve up this information. I haven't heard of a single prisoner who has even been tried, let alone convicted. I would welcome any information that you might have.

[@abdulhaqq1980]

I wonder how would Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya or Russia will be seen if they have a facility like this with some Americans inside? I wonder how Mr Bush or Obama would feel knowing that Americans are in a facility like this detained indefinitely without trial.

[@adolphhare4616]

I don't understand how some of this stuff is considered torture. I've been listening to the meow mix commercial for 10 hours STRAIGHT. I'm just fine. Meow.

[@Ztiller1991]

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy." // Christopher Dawson

[@mouricesaidi5348]

The military girl felt guilty but feard the top

[@maybe2243]

The victims of 9/11 were not given a choice to escape torture. Don't give these prisoners or there family a chance either.

[@juansilot894]

😊😅😮😢😂❤ yo vivi en el exodo de los balseros cubanos a la base naval militar de guantanamo 28 agosto 1994 al 12 semtiembre 1995 campamento golf bloque # 01 carpa # 02

[@TheScorpion77777]

"The flood lights stay on 24 hours a day" umm did u notice that u filmed them while they were off...

[@Garudanime]

that movie at the end just makes me sick, fucking war. they care more about spending billions on War than on Medical research or hunger and debt. Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have dropped on New york, Sorry but i feel this way.

[@CaptainZeroable]

This is like the KZ's in 1945

[@Beyond_Belief534]

Very true, the hypocrisy is astounding.

[@Mayaya27]

ugh. this place needs to shut down. Makes me sick to my stomach.

[@MichaelRiversT]

They should be treated as prisoners of war AT LEAST. If not, this is a violation of international law, and domestic law. Just because the Bush White House administration said, "Geneva does not apply to these people," doesn't make it legal. Honor the law.

[@sethc4758]

i never realized Guantanamo was right on the Cuban border.. that seems nearly as troubling.. we still werent friendly with Cuba, so it seems a bit dangerous putting our most high security prison with many of the worlds most dangerous terrorists right in the backyard of a hostile country we havent got along with for some 60 or 70 years now..

[@malcomcachie1616]

This is torture.

[@MiMapaVe]

@Hperman09 I know the facts but why the hell!!!!.... I can´t believe it....

[@SeanQuinn]

We need to give Cubans citizenship to the US and then we can use the entire island of Cuba to keep any and all enemy combatants. Like Australia was first populated. We can provide them with a few things. Bring their families if they wanted and we could keep an eye on them. Lets see what they would create. A new peaceful nation hopefully. The reason it wouldn't work is because Islam and half of the radicals imprisoned would start sectarian murder. Like an addict they must shed muslim blood more so than any western blood thank god. He is great indeed.

[@royjameson2097]

Last night I watched a film called 'the Card Counter' which was about a man who got good at counting cardsbduring 7 and half years @ Lebonworth, after he was charged with the accidental death of an inmate at Guantanamo Bay. The film shows and depicts the torture methods our government uses against it's captives, I've never seen such footage that made me so sick to think that our government uses these measures.

[@wildeninja2836]

*LEAVENWORTH. SMH

[@hamzah938]

They don't deserve human rights? YOU don't deserve human rights!

[@JKaiserable]

I was a guard at camp 5 (the only max security detention facility in gtmo) from 04-05

[@so-what5991]

Were you really?

[@blajblaj2700]

Was DeSantis with jag at that time ?

[@JKaiserable]

@@blajblaj2700 I think he went to gtmo after i had already rotated out. If there was anything done in the realm of “torture” i would not have known, it would have been at a CIA black site that i did not work, or even physically saw. My camp, and the camps with lower security clearance were kind of under a microscope when i was there, because it was immediately after the Abu Ghraib incident.

[@andrei-teodorene9729]

​@@JKaiserable wait what? What's the difference between black site and guantanamo bay? Isn't the whole guantanamo bay a black site? Do black sites operate inside guantanamo? Who operates them? Only CIA? Military is not granted acces? Who guards the prisoneers in the black sites? The CIA?

[@JKaiserable]

@@andrei-teodorene9729 Majority of Guantanamo bay is compartmentalized security clearance, I had a higher security clearance than the other camps, but i could not just go into another camp, as there is security clearance in conjunction with “need to know” … i could technically get through the checkpoint, but if i was seen, i better have a damn good reason to be there, but above my camp (camp 5) … DOD personnel, CIA, and any other intel agency personnel that had clearance to some designated location on the base (black site). there were rooms in my camp as well, where those agency personnel would meet with detainees, we called them “reservations”… and we could monitor them on video but had no access to sound that was recorded, nothing interesting or immoral happened here, was just talking. Sometimes these conversations awarded detainees special privileges… but getting back to the black site, it was basically just understood that it existed, some people knew where it was, i believe it was the initial camp Delta, that was outdated by the other camps, and they converted it to the black site… black site sounds ominous and suspenseful, basically just means off the grid of the normal camps, access regulated above standard military personnel rotations, didnt have regular JTF (joint task force) guards… didnt have full time detainees, was a temporary hold for reservations that were tight lipped on opsec (operational security).

[@Ryansrangereport]

ha, we did not hang him. He was put to death by his own people.

[@lukevandillen4055]

7:54 he made ZERO attempt to answer her question whatsoever.

[@danrhinehart1134]

Weather anyone wants to hear it or not: the vast majority of the American people are totally supportive of what is going on at Guantanamo Bay. And most of middle America honestly thinks they ate to soft

[@chicky-ek9gq]

Well what the US is even doing to it's own People Locking them up in Prison . I feel it's All EVIL Friend GOD IS JUDGE AND HAS LAST SAY Friend

[@yumeriagirl1231]

Dan Rhinehart NOT TRUE!!! please do NOT use the term "most Americans", to express YOUR OPINION!! Data shows that your opinion is ONLY shared with MOST Americans between the ages of 66 - 87!!! I have NOT met ONE, not one that 100% AGREES w/ Gitmo!!

[@SweetIcedTea44]

Whether not weather. Not a grammar nazi, just thought you should know

[@SweetIcedTea44]

Oh nvm this is 6 yrs old you probably know by now

[@frederiquecouture3924]

Black screen... Ahahahaha! 👁️ 👁️

[@rayseakan10]

this should never has been closed

[@llVIU]

so he's a permanent prisoner because he converted to some other religion... where's that amendment in the constitution that talks about religion? america, land of the free? yea right, you're "free" to practice any religion, as long as it is christianity, NOT atheism or islam

[@user-ou8ut7df8p]

Terrorist sympathizer

[@SheryAwan123]

Welcome to US democracy of Torture

[@MiMapaVe]

why cuba allow this in their land!!!???? wtf!!!!!!

[@sam92695]

They can't be interviwed alone because if they say something offside about torture they will be in trouble.

[@falluj]

Close Guantanamo, but prosecute the terrorists for war crimes.

[@NerfplsGoyim]

This is torture camp which is not wanted in this century.

[@SuperBrownies123]

the masterminds of 911 were held here, befor 9/11

[@miekadegerness5466]

It takes a very EVIL person to treat another Human Been this way .Teat others as you want to be treated is a Just way .This is Evil for any Human Been to be treated so If someone kills your loved in the USA You have thee Death pen. their .Canot Blame other Country's if they want justice from you for treating them badly or their love ones badly in their Country .They should get their Justice against all of you then

[@Dutchforce14]

A modern day concentration camp..

[@iziahlights]

This place is a disgrace. Simple.

[@erzan]

USA Government makes me sick.

[@HeadNtheClouds]

So what! finally punishment that is due to people who deserve it. I really don't see the problem. There are violent kids at my husbands school, 3 of them died over spring break from gang shootings (which they are in) so don't play the poor innocent children card because we know that's not true & these people are especially dangerous & not like regular people who care for life & others.

[@EnigmaticTraxx]

America's the only country with the most blood on their hand. Think I'm wrong about that? Think that I don't have a reason to hate a country that supports war and the military more than the needy and the trouble that goes within the country itself? And yeah it doesn't take logic but it's also common sense that Americans invented majority of the websites too.

[@BizarreAndrogynous]

The world has gone crazy.

[@patrickquinn5939]

You mad they changed it from tents to a real building?? Really?? How about maybe it's easier to air condition a solid building, and let's not forget THAT PRISONS WORK BETTER WHEN THEY ARE NOT TENTS!!!

[@Senacacrane]

This is just wrong. I hate that these people say that. Oh we're treating them nice but they're not. They're torturing them in actuality. And that should not be allowed.

[@WeedsComedy]

You are guilty of being Interesting and my uniqueness and apartment and Home run fast enough for letting me proof that thank goodness you just made me angry 😡.

[@harrykuheim6107]

So why didn't your Magic Negro close Gitmo like he said he was going to at every Campaign stop in '08 ?

[@rh929292]

But that's just it... Many of these people have never been charged for terrorism or anything else. There are people imprisoned in Guantanamo, like Shaker Aamer (Google is your friend), who have actually been cleared for release but are still held as prisoners -- prisoners who have been held for many years often based on nothing more than mere suspicion. The disgusting existence of Guantanamo is completely un-American and is in direct conflict with our ideals. And I'm a Conservative.

[@Guevaristas]

have they closed it? ok where will they put the detainees now? Will they rent an apartment near Times square or something?

[@zorrirush4010]

I WAS KINDA TIPPED OFF TO THE POTENTIAL FOR OUR GOVERNMENT TO GET SO DESPERATE FOR A CIRCLE BACK TO ENSLAVEMENT......SHHHHHHH NOT ARAN!

[@tehrulez]

funny how the commercial before this is called siemens And the person who says it sound like it sound like semen

[@WeedsComedy]

Bullshit,I am being tortured and your...who again ,Sir 😮

[@luckinabox]

This just pisses me off you're fighting enemy combatants you are required by international law to grant them prisoner of war status and treat them correctly no matter if they want to blow your head off.

[@alaskaban654]

Just sharing my point of view here. If the prisoners here would be treated with the highest hospitality or maybe some sort of rehabilitation, maybe that would change their perception on America.

[@RyannLagattuta]

18:10 Why she looking at her boss?

[@Minecraftmonkeys]

@Riddin4Pac just because we fight for our freedom makes us to terrorists? get some information!

[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@amirbiscevic8944]

The two star general admitted their minors kids under 16 years held in there the world is on the fast track to hell where do United States Leading the way

[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@stevetouchdownsmith]

they do not deserved to be treated right for what they have done

[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@frederiquecouture3924]

Clock 20.50 Samedi 12 Août 2023.

[@digitalbeat666]

@GREGmihos Shortly put "People in power recycle old ideas from old dictators". Common people nowadays are brainwashed and indoctrinated by media. I recommend to read book Enemy Combatant by Moazzam Begg. It gives real approach from different perspective by ex (political) prisoner of Guantanamo. I tried to read it but it is very slow because of the painful topic of inhuman torture and stuff. Also perhaps it´s slow because I am not native english. I must loan it again from my nearby library.

[@jeffreyrichardson]

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[@roosta41]

war on terror is a ridiculous term. theyre inflicting terror themselves by having a war on the consequences of the actions that theyre involved in. seems kind of hypocritical and people fall for this bullshit as a legit reason to be able to do this kind of shit to other humans. They don't need imprisonment, they need help and that definitely isn't helping

[@blugublu]

Enjoy the time you have left to make fun of something that will be the equivalent of a stay in a 4 star hotel compared to what you will ensure yourself inch'Allah. This is my final message to a lost like you. Find something to hold on, other than the Lord and contemplate your own fall.

[@8-BitHeart79]

@MsRealityCheck369 oil or political gain or for any of that crud....We the average americans are fighting because they came into our home unlawfuly with the intent to kill us. and the way we handle that in TX is with .357, same principals apply here.

[@Shaimaa4lyfee]

@powerdead1000 Not all of them are terrorits. If they really were then they shouldnt be released. And anyways, those people who are terrorists are going to get punished anyways in the next life because all those things terrorists do is NOT part of Islam.

[@Shaimaa4lyfee]

If they really did something, then they shouldn't be released. How come so many of them have been released?? Its cuz some ARE inoccent. Have a heart okay. I don't think you would be saying something like that if you were in their place.

[@maybe2243]

do you think we should put what happened on 9/11 behind us and forgive and forget? I'm going to make sure nobody that ever crosses my path remembers the horror on 9/11. you were not there. I WAS

[@Amel-sc4jw]

Gujarat or Calcutta accent???😂😂😂😂👍

[@yusufa.m.5512]

Torture of people is not ok and not nice not fer

[@fjordking]

gitmo is pretty much a big H block except for jihad-is and not for the IRA The British never gave the IRA prisoners their Status so the UK should have no problems with gitmo

[@gustavoavalos4883]

Really sounds to me like north korea and germany in quantanamo. i'm not saying that they are right but what if they did really have people that haven't done anything maybe they have but they don't tell us what's going on pay attention to the small detail no interviews unless someone is watching the interview go down, look up insisde north korea and you will see something similar.

[@932dave]

I think you watch too much main stream media ;) Like I said, I'm not the only one who share's these views. I've talked to returning Iraq vets who agree. Also I have years of American history to back it up. I highly suggest you do your own research on the subject. (Not including listing to FOX, CNN, MSNBC, or any other main stream sources) Hell, type "War is a racket" on youtube and see what pops up

[@932dave]

heh, How do u know what methods were used? U should know MUCH worse things r done there and MOST of it is not publicized. Not to mention stress positions/ sensory deprivation/ sleep deprivation can be as bad as anything. But again, WERE DO U GET YOUR INFO??? I want to check it for myself. Most of mine comes from sites such as Truthout (however not as much lately) Also from my college professors and accumulated knowledge from life. Realnews & Democracynow too. Also Fox radio sometimes