Camp Five Echo

[citation needed] According to Rosenberg a February 2009 report prepared by Admiral Patrick Walsh, on overall compliance with the Geneva Conventions, described the camp as "an open air facility with 24 individual adjoining steel mesh cells arranged in two parallel and equal rows.

[1] Captives, like Shaker Aamer, have told their attorneys that the solid steel walls made it practically impossible for them to talk with one another.

[1] Attorney David Remes who said that, in addition to Shaker Aamer, two more of his clients were sent there, said the condition in the camp violate the Geneva Conventions and called it "a throwback to the bad old days at Guantánamo.

[2][4] Camp rules only permit captives to be kept in solitary confinement for a maximum of thirty days.

[9] Another of Aamer's lawyers Ramzi Kaseem, said Aamer described the condition as "abysmal", "the squat toilet is difficult to use, there are foul odors, bright lights shine on detainees, and air conditioners keep it extremely cold.

[7] In an article marking the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo internment facility Rosenberg reported tensions were high.