Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a joint
military prison and interrogation camp under the leadership of
Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002. The prison, established at
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, holds people accused by the
executive branch of the
U.S. government of being
al-Qaeda and
Taliban operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending relocation elsewhere. The detainment areas consist of three camps (now two) in the base:
Camp Delta (which includes
Camp Echo),
Camp Iguana, and the now-closed
Camp X-Ray. The facility is often referred to as Guantanamo, Gitmo (derived from the abbreviation "GTMO"), or Camp X-Ray. The detainees held by the United States were classified as "
enemy combatants" - a term often criticised for being used in place of "Prisoners of War" after President Bush signed a memorandum stating that no Taleban or al-Qaeda detainee will qualify as a prisoner of war and that Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions will not apply to them either. Common Article 3 requires fair trial standards and prohibits torture, cruelty, and "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment."
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