Camp Delta (Guantanamo Bay)

Its first facilities were built between 27 February and mid-April 2002 by Navy Seabees, Marine Engineers, and workers from Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root.

[5][6] Initially the press was told the fourteen "high value detainees" transferred from CIA custody on 5 September 2006 were held in Camp five.

[5][6] The Department of Defense reports that Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi committed suicide in camp five on 1 June 2009.

David Remes described Camp Five Echo in 2011 as violating the Geneva Conventions, and called it "a throwback to the bad old days at Guantánamo.

[11][12][13] It was constructed to have individual cells that surrounded and looked in on a communal mess area, where it was planned compliant detainees could interact for part of the day.

However, while the building was still under construction, the decision was made to confine all detainees to their cells, except when they were taken to shower, taken for solitary exercise, or for official business.

He said that during an initial reaction force training, one U.S. soldier posing as a prisoner was beaten to the point of brain damage.

[19] In November 2007, WikiLeaks published a leaked document called "Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures".

[20] The 238-page document includes rules for dealing with hunger strikes, as well as instructions on psychologically manipulating prisoners, intimidating them with the use of military dogs,[20] and burying dead Muslim detainees.

[21] American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Jamil Dakwar raised concerns over the fact that some detainees were hidden from representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross.