Guantanamo: 20 years of US torture

Supposed to be a makeshift jail but from day one US naval base in Cuba’s Guantanamo bay had an ambiguous legal status, housing what the military called “enemy combatants” not prisoners of war. 

Twenty years ago today, the first prisoners arrived at the newly built camp x-ray prison at the US naval base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. It was supposed to be a makeshift jail and never intended to be permanent but from day one, it had an ambiguous legal status: outside normal US law, it housed what the military called “enemy combatants” not prisoners of war. 

The guests in this edition of The Spotlight shed more light on the issue.