Guantánamo: 2002-09?

Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, who was 15 at the time of his capture. In this 2003 interrogation Khadr can be heard weeping and calling for his mother Photograph: /PA

Khadr's military tribunal was scheduled to begin in Obama's first week in the White House. Before the US president filed a motion to suspend such trials, human rights groups said he would have been seen endorsing the prosecution of a child soldier if it went ahead Photograph: Reuters

The first images from Guantánamo, from early 2002, showed detainees from the Afghan war dressed in orange boilersuits Photograph: Shane T McCoy/AP

A detainee from Afghanistan is carried on a stretcher at Guantánamo in 2002 Photograph: Lynne Sladky/AP

The then US secretary of defence, Donald Rumsfeld, on a visit to Guantánamo in 2002. He called the detainees the 'worst of the worst' Photograph: /Reuters

A US marine keeps watch from a tower in 2002 Photograph: Andres Leighton/AP

Detainees face towards Mecca during evening prayer Photograph: Andres Leighton/AP

The standard items of clothing, sleeping mat, food, sandals, canteen, soap, and buckets for detainees Photograph: Tomas van Houtryve/AP

US military guards walk inside Guantánamo in 2006 Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

A US military official stands inside a cell block Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty

A small black arrow indicating the direction of Mecca on a metal shelf inside a cell Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty

Ankle handcuffs locked to a chair and the floor in an interrogation room Photograph: Haraz Ghanbari/AP

An emergency duress button mounted on the wall of an interrogation room Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

Rolls of paper with headlines from news organisations around the world, dubbed by camp officials as the newspapers, stuck in the fence of the recreation area Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty

A tower overlooking a common area Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

A detainee sleeps on a mattress on the floor of his cell Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP

A satellite image of Guantánamo Photograph: GeoEye/AP