User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/individual to be held in Guantanamo indefinitely

Both the Bush Presidency and the Obama Presidency planned for some individual to be held in Guantanamo indefinitely. Both Presidents planned for some captives to be face criminal charges, for other captives to be released, or repatriated and transferred to custody in other countries, but planned to hold some captives, without charge, possibly for the rest of their lives.

Neither Presidency went on record publicly identifying any specific individuals living in custody in Guantanamo as someone who was to face spending the rest of their lives in Guantanamo without facing any criminal charges justifying their captivity, but when 48 year old Afghan captive Awal Gul died on Februay 2, 2011, Carol Rosenberg, writing in the Miami Herald, reported that he was one of the 48 individuals the Obama Presidency planned to hold indefinitely.

Some human rights workers and legal scholars were highly critical of holding individuals who weren't classed as Prisoners of War under the Geneva Conventions in indefinite detention.