"Many had also created their own work to present and were performing it on stage for the first time.
The camp began construction just a day after President Trump announced the plan, with tents going up between 30 January and 12 February. Visible construction continued until 8 March, with scattered temporary structures appearing on satellite imagery.The construction marked a significant expansion to the Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center - a facility long used to hold some migrants and distinct from the high-security military prison used to house detainees suspected by the US of terrorism offences.
The photos below show a mix of around 260 green and white military tents in an area to the south-west of the overall Guantanamo Bay base on 1 April. But by 10 April many had been removed.Subsequent lower resolution images show that as of 16 April a total of around 175 tents appeared to have been taken down.It's unclear how many migrants remain at the facility. Stephen Miller - the White House deputy chief of staff - insisted in an interview with Fox News last week that the base remained open and that "a large number of foreign terrorist aliens" were still there.
The White House failed to reply to a request for comment on whether removal of the tents represented a reversal of Trump's plans to expand the detention facility.Despite Trump's pledge to send 30,000 migrants to the base, a US defence official indicated that the deployment to the island was to support a population of 2,500 detainees.
BBC Verify's analysis of likely tent capacity estimated it at less than 3,000 people, based on US military sleeping guidelines.
Trump said in January that the expansion would largely be used to hold undocumented migrants deemed to be dangerous criminals or national security risks."Our thoughts remain with the family and friends of Craig Rolfe, Tony Tucker and Pat Tate," a spokesperson for the MoJ told the BBC.
"This decision was made by the independent Parole Board after a thorough risk assessment."Michael Steele will be on licence for the rest of his life, with strict conditions and intensive probation supervision."
Steele's release comes about four years after that of Whomes, previously of Brockford, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, who was released in 2021.The Parole Board first said that Steele would be released on licence in February after a panel ruled imprisonment "no longer necessary for the protection of the public".