Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. More Videos Guards face harsh treatment at Gitmo Story highlights More than half the detainees are on hunger strikes Inmates routinely taunt and splash guards with urine and feces Obama says he still wants to close the facility.
For the plus inmates at the U. For the American troops who guard them, each day brings a daily rain of obscenities and filth -- sometimes physical as well as verbal. More than a decade after the first inmates arrived at the U.
From the plus detainees it once held, only remain. Of those, more than half have been approved for transfers out, but languish as the Obama administration and Congress battle over whether to shut down the facility. A handful are facing trial before military commissions, a process that has been criticized as both inefficient and unfair. If you win, you're held indefinately sic for life. The Pentagon said he was one of al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden's "most trusted facilitators and procurement specialists.
More than half are on hunger strikes. Some will take liquid nutritional supplements, but about 30 are being force-fed -- a practice condemned by human rights groups and the American Medical Association. The military has brought in additional medical staff to manage the protest.
Photos: Inside Guantanamo Bay. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on January 22, , to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay within a year. Eight years later, the prison for terrorism suspects remains open, with 41 detainees as of January President Donald Trump stated during the campaign that he would keep the prison facility open.
