Elise Swain

“Miraculously, they still believe in the U.S. justice system and still want to tell their story to a U.S. jury.”

Guantánamo Bay “is the iconic example of the abandonment of the rule of law,” the letter argues.

He was promised his freedom, but, with no U.S. pressure, his host country systematically denied him any semblance of normal life.

Here at The Intercept, we are committed to ruining the holidays.

By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians.

At least four detainees who have not been charged with any crime contracted Covid-19 at the notorious maximum security prison base.

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.

(Alfreda Bikowsky Scheuer did not write this.)

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.

In his book “Witnesses to War,” photographer Bassam Khabieh confronts the world with life and death in Syria's 10-year civil war.