Guantanamo Bay.

This month marks the 13th anniversary of Guantanamo Bay, a U.S military detention centre in Cuba - set up in response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and subsequent military operations in Afghanistan. Existing migrant detention facilities at Guantanamo were re-purposed to hold detainees in the 'war on terror' . Behind closed doors, for 13 long years, Guantanamo Bay has kept prisoners under inhumane conditions, many of them tortured - and most importantly, most of them didn't even see trial. Men who have been cleared of their said 'crimes' remain in Guantanamo, because they've seen too much.

Waterboarding has been a popular method of torture at Guantanamo, a water-based method which gives the victim the sensation of drowning. Detainees are immobilized at around 10 or 20 degrees, with a cloth placed over their faces. Torturers pour water over the victim's breathing passages, which usually causes an almost immediate gag reflex. The Central Intelligence Agency admitted to using waterboarding as a form of torture in 2002 and 2003. This technique can cause irreversible damage to the victim's lungs, and due to the starvation of oxygen to the brain, often brain damage. This is merely one example of the injustice that goes on every day in Guantanamo Bay.

There has been reports of 7 deaths in custody since the opening, however there is much speculation around the numbers. Guantanamo still detains prisoners who have been cleared, perhaps there is more than meets the eye - of course there is. Detainees have been reported to have committed suicide, under such harsh detention, this would be near impossible.

The inhumanity that resonates at Guantanamo Bay each and every day has to come to an end. It is time for Barack Obama to follow through with his executive order to close Guantanamo within a year, an order signed 6 years ago.