Why is the Guantánamo Bay prison still open?

Two decades of the world’s most notorious prison. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: In 2002, the US opened a prison at its naval base in Guantánamo bay, Cuba. The 9/11 attacks had occurred just months before, and the US was capturing hundreds of men in Afghanistan and Pakistan. It wanted a place to hold and question them. So the Bush administration opened Guantánamo and claimed that it lay outside of US and international law.