Guantanamo Bay Detention Center Case Study

The significance of President Obama’s proposal of closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center could not be more delayed from both a moral and justice standpoint. A case in point is that the infamous detention center continues negatively to be seen as an inhumane facility that violated the human rights and lack of due process for detainees. On January 22, 2009, President Obama’s proposal of closing the detention facility in one year showed the slightest of promises to say the least. For example, the Obama Administration released approximately two-hundred forty detainees at the facility (Lennon, 2015). However, the Obama Administration’s release of two-hundred forty detainees was not enough to address the outrage from both the United States of America’s and most foreign countries’ moral accusation of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center proposing various techniques of torture and lack of judicial due process for detainees. Aside from the Obama Administration gradually releasing detainees at the detention center and the ongoing backlash from both a national and international perspective …show more content…
Focusing on the necessities of providing the basic characteristics of human rights for Guantanamo detainees has become the main benefit by the Obama Administration’s proposal of closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Above all regarding the benefits of closing the detention center, restores the international community’s faith of how the United States of America presents itself as a country of preserving human rights (Cutler, 2008; Lennon, 2015; and Chaffee, 2016). The opponents of closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center notes that closing the detention center proposes the threat of Guantanamo detainees plotting increasingly more terror attacks on the United States of America and abroad (Horton, 2010; Pearlman,