U.N. rights experts have reported that the treatment of the last 30 Detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison is "cruel, inhuman and degrading." The detainees have been held for close to two decades following their seizure as suspects after the 2001 al-Qaida attack on the United States. The treatment includes constant surveillance, isolation, inadequate medical and mental health care, and limited access to family. The U.N. special rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism has called for accountability and closure of the prison, which remains outside the U.S. justice system.

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