US lifts Guantanamo veil of secrecy
BBC News
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The release of documents containing the names of hundreds of prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay camps represents a significant blow to US government secrecy surrounding the controversial facility in Cuba.
The documents - transcripts from the combatant status review tribunals (CRSTs) held to assess detainees' status - are being released now after the US government lost a court challenge against a request lodged under America's freedom of information act.
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See Also:
Pentagon Releases Names of Gitmo Inmates
Timeline of AP's Guantanamo Lawsuit
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Human rights activists say this new information should make it easier to piece together the personal histories of the detainees - and for the first time to build a big picture of who is held at the camps, and why they are there.
What the documents do not do is shed light on speculation that there are other prisoners, known as "ghost" detainees, at the camp.
If a prisoner at the camp has not had a CSRT they will not feature in the transcripts. And while there are about 490 people currently held at the camps, the latest documents contain the summaries of only about 320 CSRTs.
BBC News
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The release of documents containing the names of hundreds of prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay camps represents a significant blow to US government secrecy surrounding the controversial facility in Cuba.
The documents - transcripts from the combatant status review tribunals (CRSTs) held to assess detainees' status - are being released now after the US government lost a court challenge against a request lodged under America's freedom of information act.
____________________
See Also:
Pentagon Releases Names of Gitmo Inmates
Timeline of AP's Guantanamo Lawsuit
____________________
Human rights activists say this new information should make it easier to piece together the personal histories of the detainees - and for the first time to build a big picture of who is held at the camps, and why they are there.
What the documents do not do is shed light on speculation that there are other prisoners, known as "ghost" detainees, at the camp.
If a prisoner at the camp has not had a CSRT they will not feature in the transcripts. And while there are about 490 people currently held at the camps, the latest documents contain the summaries of only about 320 CSRTs.
