... OR WILL TRUMP SEND THEM TO GITMO?

THE Guantanamo Bay detention camp was established by George W Bush in 2002 to hold ‘extraordinarily dangerous people’ in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

It was intended as a place where terror suspects captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan could be held without access to lawyers, and interrogated with very few rights and restraints on their captors.

But critics said the notorious facility in Cuba became a place to detain prisoners without trial and the scene of human rights abuses, including torture. In 2004, the International Committee of the Red Cross accused the US military of using ‘humiliating acts, solitary confinement, temperature extremes and use of forced positions’ against inmates. Around 00 men of 50 different nationalities have been taken to Guantanamo. At least 16 Britons were held there for years without being prosecuted. Britain’s last detainee was Shaker Aamer, who was finally freed in 2015 after a Daily Mail campaign.

Barack Obama promised to close the camp in 2009. But he faced strong opposition from the US Congress, and succeeded only in reducing the number of inmates from 245 to around 40.

Donald Trump has vowed to keep the prison open and use it to detain ‘bad dudes’. He has also stated he would happily use torture against inmates. Last month he signed an executive order to keep the camp open and let new prisoners be admitted.