Most of the 39 prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay have never been charged with a crime

Most of the 39 prisoners still being held at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center in Cuba have never been charged with a crime. The White House has taken action in advance to release one and arrange for another five eligible for release.

There are some difficulties in how to deal with the remaining prisoners, including a dozen prisoners that the US government is not going to release.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammad is a former al-Qaeda senior figure and is considered to be the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He is such a prisoner. He and the four co-defendants face a trial by the military committee, which has been in the pre-trial stage for more than nine years. Muhammad and his co-defendants held their 42nd pre-trial hearing in court this week.

Other prisoners are dealing with major physical and mental health issues, including the oldest prisoner in Guantanamo prison, a 74-year-old Pakistani man suffering from heart disease and other diseases. He was released in May but remained in prison.

“People are getting older, getting sicker and getting more desperate,” said Pardiss Kebriaei, a lawyer representing a recently released prisoner who is still being held.

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After the invasion of Afghanistan, in response to the September 11 attacks, the United States wanted a place to hold hundreds of prisoners from dozens of countries who were swept by the US military. It was later proved that many were handed over in exchange for rewards.Are they related to al-Qaeda or Taliban.

Administration of the then President George W. Bush Declaring them to be the “worst of the worst” and claiming that it can detain these people overseas without being accused of illegal enemy combatants, who have no right to sleep in naval outposts on Cuba’s jagged southeast coast Enjoy the full protection of prisoners of war.

A photo posted Pentagon Shows the first group of detainees, wearing orange jumpsuits, kneeling in outdoor cages in tropical sunlight. Karen Greenberg, director of the Fordham Law National Security Center, said that it aims to show the world the message that “we are doing what we need to do”, which is provocative to the world.

“They regretted the decision very quickly, within a few days or even a few weeks,” said Greenberg, who was Worst place: the first 100 days in Guantanamo.

As reports of cruel treatment emerged, Guantanamo became a source of international anger, weakening the sympathy and support the United States received after the 9/11 attacks.

The United States will eventually detain 779 prisoners in Guantanamo, and spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build and operate what looks more or less like a small state prison today, surrounded by barbed wire and outposts on the edge of the sparkling Caribbean Sea.

Few of the detainees will be charged with a crime because they did not collect evidence when they were arrested, or there was no evidence, or they were contaminated and could not be used when the detainee was tortured. CIA Euphemistically called “enhanced interrogation”. Among the remaining people, 10 are facing trial by the military committee, all of which are still in the pre-trial stage.

Over the years, the population has been shrinking steadily because the United States believes that some men no longer pose a threat and are not worth holding in a legal challenge. It is also sometimes shaken by hunger strikes and shaken by conflicts between prisoners and guards. This is mainly due to the frustration of being detained indefinitely by the United States claiming its rights under the international laws of war.

Guantanamo is smaller and quieter now. But Stafford Smith, founder of human rights organization Reprieve, said this is still depressing. “It’s not so much a physical condition as a psychological condition,” he said. “Being told that you are at the California Hotel, you can check out, but you can never leave. This has caused great harm to people’s psychology.”

President Barack ObamaAn executive order was issued shortly after taking office, directing Guantanamo to be closed within a year, but when his government announced that the military trial would be handed over to the Federal Court, it met with political opposition. Congress Finally, language was added to the Pentagon’s annual authorization bill, prohibiting the government from transferring Guantanamo prisoners to the United States for any reason.

As a sign that the political wind may be shifting, Congress recently lifted the ban on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners from the Pentagon’s authorization and canceled funding for the detention center from next year’s budget. Whether this situation will change remains to be seen, especially after several former prisoners released during Bush and Obama became leaders of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Biden administration did not respond to requests for comment on this article, nor did it comment too much on its plans.

“I don’t have a timetable for you,” the press secretary Jean Psaki Tell reporters when asked about closing Guantanamo in July. “As you know, there is a process. There are different levels of this process. But this is still our goal. We are considering all available ways to transfer detainees responsibly and, of course, close Guantanamo Bay.”