Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in gold in dollars; in 1974, the yearly lease was set to $4,085. The base is on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the oldest overseas U.S. Naval Base. Since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Cuban government has consistently protested against the U.S. presence on Cuban soil and called it illegal under international law, alleging that the base was imposed on Cuba by force. Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, for alleged unlawful combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places during the
Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes at its peak in July when 106 out of the 166 detainees were considered on hunger strike, with 45 of them being force-fed by the prison administration. On December 4, 2013, the US military announced that it would no longer disclose information about the hunger strikes, explaining that "The release of this information serves no operational purpose". The last disclosed figures in December showed numbers of hunger strikers rising to 15, with all being force-fed. Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes The first well-known Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes began in the middle of 2005, when detainees held by the United States at