Protests against Women guards row in Guantanamo

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed refused to meet with counsel on Thursday. The US military says it won’t agree to use only male guards and will go ahead of practice of using female guards .

The western countries whose use of female troops inside the highest security unit at Guantanamo Bay is not going well with the prisoners sparking protests by prisoners.

Majority of Prisoners “high-value” detainees are refusing to meet with their lawyers unless the military agrees to use only male guards to move them around the US base in Cuba.

According to Islamic beliefs prohibit physical contact with women who aren’t relatives and US authorities have resumed using female soldiers to escort these prisoners which they halted in 2007.