The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, [note 1] also known as GTMO (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh), GITMO (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh), or simply Guantanamo Bay, is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

3 days ago · President Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantánamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally. While the U.S. naval base is best known for the suspects brought in after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, it also has a separate facility used for decades to hold detained immigrants.

2 days ago · The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also referred to as GTMO or GITMO, is a United States military prison located within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, on the the coast of Guantánamo Bay, in ...

4 days ago · Guantanamo Bay detention camp, U.S. detention facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, located on the coast of Guantanamo Bay in southeastern Cuba. Constructed in stages starting in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp was used to house Muslim militants and suspected terrorists.

1 day ago · The Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center (GMOC) refers to a migrant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay detention camp.The GMOC is distinct from the prison for high-security terrorism suspects and had in the past held Haitians and Cubans picked up at sea. [1] The GMOC was the focus of an executive order in January 2025 under President Trump to greatly expand the facility so it could hold the ...

1 day ago · President Donald Trump’s stated plan to detain 30,000 migrants at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, brings a little-known history back into the spotlight: When the U.S. held Haitian ...

3 days ago · I hereby direct the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security to take all appropriate actions to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full ...

3 days ago · President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house tens of thousands of migrants.

3 days ago · The sun sets behind the closed Camp X-Ray detention facility at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, on April 17, 2019. Alex Brandon / AP file "Most people don’t even know about it.

3 days ago · Watch: Trump directs construction of Guantanamo Bay detention centre for 30,000 migrants US President Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay ...

3 days ago · President Barack Obama signed an executive order in 2009 directing the closing of the Guantanamo detention camp within a year, but the plan was disrupted when the U.S. Senate voted to keep the ...

Jan 12, 2025 · Since 2002, roughly 780 detainees have been held at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Now, 15 remain. Of those, 9 have been charged with war crimes in the military commissions...

2 days ago · In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.

2 days ago · U.S. President Donald Trump, who made the deportation of immigrants a central part of his campaign and presidency, said Wednesday that the U.S. will use a detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ...

Apr 12, 2021 · The U.S. military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has generated intense debate for two decades, raising enduring questions about national security, human rights, and justice.

1 day ago · Only 15 detainees remain at the base’s detention facility after the Biden administration transferred nearly a dozen people from Guantanamo to Oman in an effort to reduce the inmate population.

As of January 6, 2025, 15 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. [1][2][3] This list of Guantánamo prisoners has the known identities of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, but is compiled from various sources and is incomplete.

Jan 10, 2022 · January 11 marks 20 years since the opening of Guantanamo Bay, the infamous US prison located in Cuba that critics say allows detainees to be held indefinitely outside of normal laws or...

Jan 11, 2002 · 21 years after the opening of an offshore detention facility specifically designed to evade the rule of law, the US government continues to detain 35 men inside the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. Of these 35 men, most have never even been charged with a crime.

At home and around the world, Guantánamo has become a symbol of injustice, abuse, and disregard for the rule of law. Since the prison camp opened in 2002, almost 800 men have passed through its cells. In addition to unlawful detention, many were subjected to …

Sep 7, 2021 · Initially set up as a temporary detention facility dubbed “Camp X-Ray” in 2002, the prison complex now comprises seven detention camps labelled according to the order they were built. According to...

3 days ago · Earlier this week, the Army announced that 111 military police soldiers from the New York National Guard deployed to Guantanamo Bay on Jan. 25 as part of regular rotations to “secure” the ...

Jun 27, 2018 · On January 11, 2002, the United States brought 20 prisoners to the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the beginning of the long-term detention of hundreds of individuals apprehended in...