Sabri al-Qurashi Has Lived Without Legal Status in Kazakhstan Since His 2014 Guantánamo Release
He was promised his freedom, but, with no U.S. pressure, his host country systematically denied him any semblance of normal life.
Ghosts of Guantánamo
The forever prisoners of the U.S. war on terror have become forgotten prisoners, left to rot in cells at Guantánamo Bay or sent abroad to lives of deprivation — or worse.
Guantánamo Bay Prison’s First Covid Outbreak Shrouded in Secrecy
At least four detainees who have not been charged with any crime contracted Covid-19 at the notorious maximum security prison base.
Voices
The Truth Never Mattered at Guantánamo
The deceit and lies and cover-ups of the worst moments in post-9/11 history have created an endless stage of hypocrisy for all the world to see.
I Spent 20 Years Covering America's Secretive Detention Regime. Torture Was Always the Subtext.
The U.S. naval base in Cuba was like another planet, where only the camaraderie of other journalists kept me tied to reality.
Lawyers for Accused 9/11 Plotters Say Government Withheld Public Information
The sanitized summaries of CIA cables provided by the prosecution leave out vital details that journalists and others have obtained using FOIA.
Former Guantánamo Detainee Disappeared After Return to Yemen, Family Says
After 20 years in arbitrary detention, a former Guantánamo detainee was released from a United Arab Emirates prison to his family’s care in Yemen. His freedom lasted less than a week.
Voices
The Guantánamo Bay Internment Camp Is an Unresolved Vestige of the American Occupation of Afghanistan
The 20-year conflict will not be fully resolved until the issue of prisoners of war has been justly settled.
Their Fathers Were Caught in the 9/11 Dragnet. Guantánamo Came to Define Their Lives.
The sons of two Guantánamo detainees speak about getting to know their fathers through sporadic calls and Google searches about the war on terror.
“They Believed Anything but the Truth” — 14 Years in Guantánamo
Captured at the age of 18, Mansoor Adayfi describes coming of age at Guantánamo in his memoir, “Don't Forget Us Here.”
Intercepted Podcast
Intercepted Bonus: Inside the Secretive Court at Guantanamo Bay as CIA Torture Architect Testifies
In this Intercepted bonus, The Intercept's Margot Williams on her reporting from the secretive war court at GTMO.