Habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees Habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees The nature of international human rights law has been seemingly altered by Americans since the attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2001. The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is one example of recent developments that seem to disregard long standing human rights. The United States of America (USA) has pursued a 'seemingly deliberate strategy' to put suspected terrorists outside the reach of habeas corpus protections. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay serves as the location for a United States military prison in Cuba designed for the detention of non-citizens suspected of
Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay half a dozen men who had lived in Canada, either as refugees, candidates for citizenship, or illegal immigrants. On April 25, 2011, the whistleblower site WikiLeaks started publishing documents they called detainee assessment briefs. These previously unpublished documents had been drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo, whereas all the previously published documents from Guantanamo had been drafted by the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants of the Office of Military Commissions. Sixteen captives secret files were not available to wikileaks, including Abdurahman Khadr's. Canadian detainees at Guantanamo Bay The United States Department of Defense acknowledges