| | Due to security concerns the media has not been given access to the detention center, and the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] adminstration has said that interrogations are vital tools for winning the [[War on Terror]]{{fact}}. Some human rights groups and other activists claim the US has practiced [[torture]], such as cold-hot shock rooms, electrical shocks, simulated drowning, food and water deprivation, chaining, forced walking on broken glass and barbed wire, and psychological torture.[http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-reallives-eng] As torture is illegal in the US and in nearly all other nations in the world, the camp is critisized by governments around the world. | | Due to security concerns the media has not been given access to the detention center, and the [[George W. Bush|Bush]] adminstration has said that interrogations are vital tools for winning the [[War on Terror]]{{fact}}. Some human rights groups and other activists claim the US has practiced [[torture]], such as cold-hot shock rooms, electrical shocks, simulated drowning, food and water deprivation, chaining, forced walking on broken glass and barbed wire, and psychological torture.[http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-reallives-eng] As torture is illegal in the US and in nearly all other nations in the world, the camp is critisized by governments around the world. |
| − | The Australian [[David Hicks]] has been held in the camp for several years without ever being brought to trial, and only very recently, have charges been laid. | + | The Australian [[David Hicks]] has been held in the camp for over five years without ever being brought to trial, and only very recently, have charges been laid. |