Guantánamo Bay
We led the fight for access to the men held at Guantánamo, and were one of the very first organisations allowed inside. Since then, we have secured freedom for more than 80 men illegally detained without charge or trial – more than any other organisation.
After 9/11, the US government systematically designed and implemented a programme of abducting and torturing terrorism suspects, before imprisoning them without due process in Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve’s Clive Stafford Smith was one of the three lawyers who demanded and successfully sued for access to the prison.
Since 2002, 779, including at least 15 children, have been imprisoned at Guantánamo. The vast majority of them were sold to the US for large bounties – typically, around $5,000 for each man. So far just 4 detainees have been convicted of a crime – fewer than the number who have died in detention. No one has ever been held accountable for the illegal detention and abuse at the prison camp and it remains open to this day.
About Guantanamo
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2018: The end of Guantanamo
16 years on, Guantánamo Bay has become an enduring symbol of injustice in our time. To mark this grim anniversary, we begin a global campaign to close Guantanamo for good,...
Life After Guantánamo
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Reprieve's work doesn't end at Guantánamo's gates
Our Life After Guantánamo team provides the support former detainees need to recover from years in ‘hell’
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Active Cases
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Abdul Latif Nasser
Abdul Latif Nasser is a 51-year-old Moroccan national who was sold for a...
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Haroon Gul
Haroon Gul is a young father from Afghanistan who has been held without...
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Ahmed Rabbani
Ahmed Rabbani was a taxi driver in Pakistan whom intelligence services...
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Towfiq Bihani
Towfiq Bihani has been held at Guantánamo Bay since early 2003. The US...
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Abdulmalik Bajabu
Abdulmalik Bajabu is a 44-year old Kenyan citizen who was seized in 2007 by...
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Khalid Qassim
Khalid Qassim, from Yemen, has been held at Guantanamo since 2002. He has...
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Saifullah Paracha
Saifullah is a father of four. He has been held without charge at...
Closed Cases
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Younous Chekkouri
Younous was working for a youth charity in Afghanistan when he was rounded...
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Samir Naji Mukbel
Samir Mukbel arrived in Guantánamo Bay on the first plane to deliver...
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Shaker Aamer
Shaker Aamer was taken, hooded and shackled, to the prison camp at...
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Emad Hassan
Emad Hassan was abducted by bounty hunters while studying in Pakistan and...
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Press Releases
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Guantánamo lawyers file mass challenge to Trump's Gitmo policy
Human rights organization Reprieve, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and co-counsel have filed a mass legal challenge to Donald Trump’s continued detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.
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16 years on, US continues detention without charge at Guantánamo
“It's shameful that 16 years after the opening of Guantánamo, we are still holding people without charge or trial on the basis of faulty ‘intelligence’ extracted through torture."
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Trump's Guantanamo comments undermine the rule of law - Reprieve
"In these moments, our elected representatives are put to the test – and President Trump is failing badly."
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Guantanamo inmates starving amid new medical rules
The authorities at Guantánamo Bay have ceased the ten-year practice of force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners, under a new policy by the Trump Administration.
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Minister refuses to condemn Trump’s views on torture
A senior government minister in the House of Lords has refused to condemn President Trump for his views on torture. The comments directly contradict a statement by a Foreign Office minister, just yesterday, that the UK opposes torture in all forms.