Q&A About Guantanamo Bay and the Detainees (NPR)

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What are they charged with?

Only four detainees have been charged. Their trials - which the Pentagon calls military commissions - got underway in August 2004. But that process is stalled. An appeals judge said that the men had not been given proper due process. That decision came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the detainees had the right to challenge their detentions in American courts. A decision on what will happen next is still pending.
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Who is allowed to see the people being held there?

The press has been allowed on the base. I've been there six times. But the military exercises extreme control. They let you see only what they want you to see. On any of the tours of the camp, we can see prisoners being held in the medium-security section of the camp. These are the most compliant detainees who have more freedom than the others. They're allowed more recreation time, they live in more of a dorm-type building. But we can't talk to them. Every interaction between the media and prisoners is scripted by the military. The same restrictions apply to politicians who go there to investigate the conditions at Guantanamo.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4715916

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1. Bump! important info for those who claim we "know" who is in

and what is going on in Gitmo.