Starea de excepție și drepturile omului: deținuții din Guantanamo Bay

Abstract

After the 9/11 attacks, the United States led the War on Terror in order to strengthen counter-terrorism measures. The main objective of this article is to highlight the treatment of the war prisoners, or unlawful combatants – defined by Donald Rumsfeld, the head of the United States Secretary of Defence at that time – while they were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. The Bush Administration managed to use the enhanced interrogation techniques on the so-called unlawful combatants, in order to obtain information, claiming that those prisoners were not protected by the Geneva Convention.

Keywords

• human rights
• unlawful combatants
• state of exception
• guantanamo bay
• war on terror