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Trump signs order to keep Guantanamo Bay camp open indefinitely
US soldiers patrolling Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep the notorious Guantanamo Bay concentration camp open before his State of the Union address last night.
The illegal prison, sited within a US naval base on an occupied corner of Cuba, allows US authorities to hold captives behind bars indefinitely without bringing them to trial.
Former president Barack Obama promised to close it if elected in 2008 and even signed an order demanding its closure within a year on his second day in office in 2009 but ended up breaking the pledge.
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The project has caused indignation in Cuba, which claims sovereignty over the base, occupied more than 100 years ago by the US military, writes PABLO MERIGUET