By James Nye. More than six years on since President Obama vowed to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay - the world's most controversial prison is still open, holding prisoners without charge or trial. Chilling out: To relax, prisoners can visit the camp's in-house library, which contains a host of books, in Arabic and English, Hollywood blockbuster DVDs and magazines and sit back and watch the movie in a lazy boy chair. Expressionism: The detainees at Guantanamo Bay's Camp VI are allowed to paint and display their artwork on the walls for the guards and other inmates to see.
Entertainment: Off-duty military can relax at the Ground Zero paintball range in Guantanamo Bay on the eastern tip of Cuba. Downtime: Military personnel can relax on the beach on the base which is on the eastern tip of Cuba. Caribbean prison: A member of the US military based at Guantanamo Bay stares out to sea while at the base which is permanently leased from Cuba.
Set up years ago to house foreign terrorism suspects, Guantanamo still holds or so inmates in high security sections titled 1 to 7, who pass their days by painting and reading, while their guards pass the time eating in Cuba's only McDonald's and blowing off some steam at Ground Zero paint ball park.
Guantanamo Bay is back in the headlines following the controversial trade of American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners at the camp and these are the first photographs of the base taken since as featured in the Sunday People in the UK. Now and then: The world was stunned when pictures of prisoners gagged, blindfolded and deprived of all sensation were released from Camp X-Ray in The United States' moral authority was damaged and now that caged pen lies overgrown and empty.
Dark days: Soldiers walk through the now derelict pens of Camp X-Ray where captives were forced to wear black-out goggles so they could not see, ear-muffs so they could not hear, surgical masks to restrict their sense of smell and mittens so they could not feel in the baking degree sun. Infamous: If Guantanamo Bay is well-known for one thing, its as the site where the Bush administration's so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding were put to use.
