Legal Documents and Analysis
Guantanamo and the Rule of Law
http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/~secure/docket/gitmo/index.htm
A site assembled by the Medill School of Journalism with various contextual articles about Guatanamo: good information, though the articles are older now and the site has not been updated.
Center For Constitutional Rights
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp
The CCR, headed by Michael Ratner, was and is Ground Zero for legal activism on Guantanamo. The Center coordinated the Supreme Court case and the habeas cases of many of the detainees; additionally, Ratner and the CCR have facilitated the performance of a play about Guantanamo, Honor Bound To Defend Freedom, in theatres across the United States and in Britain.
Global Security Site on Guantanamo Bay
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/guantanamo-bay_camp-refs.htm
Great collection of legal and military documents.
News Portals
Guantanamo News Watch
http://guantanamobile.org/blog/
Frequently updated news blog on the Guantanamobile Project website; blogger Tonianne deMaria Barry digests and analyzes news from a wide variety of sources.
Guardian Special Report: Guantanamo Bay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/0,13743,1000982,00.html
The British paper The Guardian has produced perhaps the most sustained, and often the most critical, coverage of events at Guantanamo: this “special report” assembles many of these articles.
Newsday Special Report: Guantanamo
http://www.newsday.com/mynews/ny-guantanamo-gallery0615,0,3547110.storygallery
A portal index of Newsday articles about Guantanamo.
Jurist Hot Topics: Guantanamo
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/hottopics/guantanamo.php
A news archive collecting articles mainly about legal aspects of the Guantanamo detentions.
Guantanamo Interactive Timeline at Miami Herald (registration required)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/special_packages/archive/11276706.htm
An excellent timeline of Guantanamo events with links to reports and documents.
Activist Sites
Amnesty International – Guantanamo Bay: A Human Rights Scandal
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/guantanamobay-index-eng
Website which assembles Amnesty reports and actions on Guantanamo. Includes video interview with Rabiye Kurnaz and the controversial 2005 Amnesty report “Guantanamo and Beyond;” Amnesty drew ire from the Bush Adminstration for referring to Guantanamo as a “gulag” in their discussion of this report.
Cageprisoners
Begun by a group of mainly Europe-based Muslims in October 2003, Cageprisoners is by far the most comprehensive clearinghouse for information about the base, the legal struggle over detentions, and the fate of individual detainees. Includes many interviews with activists and detainee families and a very active forum.
Guantanamo Human Rights Commission
Launched in January 2004 by a series of high-profile Britishers including Corwin and Vanessa Redgrave, this organization focused on the detention of British citizens and residents at the base, but also attempted to draw attention to the plight of other detainees. Since the last British detainees were repatriated in 2005, the site has not been updated.
Human Rights Watch: Guantanamo Detainees
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=usa_gitmo
Collection of Human Rights Watch documents and actions concerning Guantanamo.
International Justice Project Archive of media articles about Guantanamo
http://www.internationaljusticeproject.org/guantArticles.cfm
Online Articles About Guantanamo
Franklin, Jane, “How Did Guantanamo Become A Prison?” April 11, 2005 (http://hnn.us/articles/11000.html)
Historian Jane Franklin provides an account of the history of the use of the base as a detention center.
Butler, Judith, “Guantanamo Limbo.” The Nation, April 1 2002.
(http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020401&c=2&s=butler)
An early article about the Administration’s attempt to create a “rights-free zone” in Guantanamo: Butler, a noted literary critic and rhetoric scholar, pays close attention to the Administration’s use of new terminology and definitions in their pronouncements about the detainees.
Rose, David Operation Take Away My Freedom: Inside Guantanamo Bay On Trial Vanity Fair January 2004
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/khadr/readings/gitmo.html
Rose, a reporter at the Guardian and author of a book on Guantanamo (described above), visited the prison in late 2003; his article focuses on some of the psychological effects of prolonged detention.
Other
US Navy Website for Guantanamo Bay
http://www.nsgtmo.navy.mil/
Deleted material from the Navy website for Guantanamo Bay
http://www.thememoryhole.org/gitmo/gitmo-site.htm