Was Guantanamo Bay Closed?

In January 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep the detention camp

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open indefinitely. In May 2018, a prisoner was repatriated to Saudi Arabia during Trump's term.

Are there still prisoners at Guantanamo Bay?

Marines transport a detainee in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002. Nearly 800 detainees have passed through the prison since it opened that year. Today, 39 men are still being held there.

Is Guantanamo Bay illegal?

The government of Cuba regards the U.S. presence in Guantánamo Bay as an illegal occupation on the basis that the Cuban–American Treaty "was obtained by threat of force and is in violation of international law." Some legal scholars judge that the lease may be voidable.

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