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In January 2002, 20 shackled prisoners became the first inmates of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre. A total of 779 men have been held at the naval facility since it was opened. Eleven years later, 166 prisoners — many of them on hunger strike

to protest their conditions and incarceration — are still there.



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