USA: Life after Guantánamo: Fate of former detainees

USA: Life after Guantánamo: Fate of former detainees

Index Number: AMR 51/170/2007
Date Published: 10 December 2007
Categories: USA, Counter Terror with Justice

Release from Guantánamo has not meant the end of suffering for many of the detainees. Some have been arrested immediately on arrival in their home country and possibly tortured. Some have been harassed because they had been labelled by the US authorities as suspected terrorists. Many have suffered physical and psychological health problems because of their long years in incarceration. Some have found themselves in desperate poverty, their businesses and jobs long gone.