Category:Guantanamo captive's documents

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The United States created a detention camp in its Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to hold captives taken during its war on terror in extrajudicial detention.

At first the Executive Branch planned to keep all information about the captives classified, and planned to keep the allegations that had lead to their detention a secret from the captives. However this plan was challenged before the Judicial Branch, and tens of thousands of pages of documents have been released.

• 572 captives faced Combatant Status Review Tribunals.
• Approximately 400 captives faced Administrative Review Board.
• Approximately 200 captives have had writs of habeas corpus submitted on their behalf]].
• Ten captive faced charges before the second version of the Guantanamo military commission. The United States Supreme Court struck down the second version of the military commissions, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, on the grounds that the creation of the commissions did not lie within the authority of the Executive Branch. Rather the authority lay in the Legislative Branch. In the fall of 2006 the United States Congress passed the Military Commissions Act. Fourteen "high-value" captives, who had been held in secret CIA interrogation centres are expected to face charges. And the DoD has said they planned to eventually charge 70 to 80 of the most guilty captives.