You can read “Faces of Guantanamo” here
On September 14, 2006, the Center for Constitutional Rights released Faces of Guantnamo, a report offering a revealing glimpse of the lives of men currently detained at Guantnamo. While recent news has focused on information about the 14 “high-value” detainees recently transferred from secret CIA prisons abroad to Guantnamo, the realities for more than 450 detainees already imprisoned at the base have been pushed to the background. Faces of Guantnamo highlights the cases of nearly thirty men who have been held in Guantnamo for nearly five years-despite significant evidence that they are innocent of any wrongdoing.

For the men at Guantnamo, the theory of their imprisonment - now in its fifth year for most of
them - is that they were soldiers, technically, “enemy combatants.” The “enemy combatant”
definition in use exceeds what is permissible under the Geneva Conventions; and scores, perhaps
hundreds of men do not fit even within its broad reach. In brief, they were not soldiers. They
engaged in no hostilities. In the chaos of wartime, many in Afghanistan and Pakistan were sold for
money or as part of tribal or local grievances; others were picked up far from any battlefield.i Of the
over 700 men held at Guantnamo since January 2002, more than 240 have been transferred or
released to freedom.ii Of the men still detained, at least 140 are “cleared for release” by the U.S.
Government.iii Many of these men, held on the flimsiest of evidence, were merely guilty of being in
the wrong place at the wrong time. Others have been denied access to evidence that potentially
would exonerate them. Some have even been declared by the U.S. Government to be non-enemy
combatants, yet still languish in Guantnamo.iv
U.S. military personnel,v and even the findings of the flawed tribunals at Guantnamo,vi have
thoroughly discredited the Administration’s claims that Guantnamo detainees are the
“worst of the worst.”vii Detainees have been asking for the habeas hearings they were promised
two years ago after the Supreme Court ruling in Rasul v. Bush. The refusal of the United States to
provide real hearings to the detainees gravely injures our reputation and our ability to coordinate
abroad the struggle against terrorism. By contrast, fair determinations by judges that persons still
held are indeed combatants in ongoing wars will lend credibility to the nation’s foreign policy.For the men at Guantnamo, the theory of their imprisonment - now in its fifth year for most of
them - is that they were soldiers, technically, “enemy combatants.” The “enemy combatant”
definition in use exceeds what is permissible under the Geneva Conventions; and scores, perhaps
hundreds of men do not fit even within its broad reach. In brief, they were not soldiers. They
engaged in no hostilities. In the chaos of wartime, many in Afghanistan and Pakistan were sold for
money or as part of tribal or local grievances; others were picked up far from any battlefield.i Of the
over 700 men held at Guantnamo since January 2002, more than 240 have been transferred or
released to freedom.ii Of the men still detained, at least 140 are “cleared for release” by the U.S.
Government.iii Many of these men, held on the flimsiest of evidence, were merely guilty of being in
the wrong place at the wrong time. Others have been denied access to evidence that potentially
would exonerate them. Some have even been declared by the U.S. Government to be non-enemy
combatants, yet still languish in Guantnamo.iv
U.S. military personnel,v and even the findings of the flawed tribunals at Guantnamo,vi have
thoroughly discredited the Administration’s claims that Guantnamo detainees are the
“worst of the worst.”vii Detainees have been asking for the habeas hearings they were promised
two years ago after the Supreme Court ruling in Rasul v. Bush. The refusal of the United States to
provide real hearings to the detainees gravely injures our reputation and our ability to coordinate
abroad the struggle against terrorism. By contrast, fair determinations by judges that persons still
held are indeed combatants in ongoing wars will lend credibility to the nation’s foreign policy.