Ron DeSantis in Guantánamo: how questions about his past haunt the Florida governor

As a young navy lawyer, the Republican was posted to the notorious prison camp. Questions about what he did there – and his role in the investigation of three deaths – are not going away

In the middle of a June night 17 years ago in the Guantánamo prison camp, guards and medical orderlies were urgently summoned to one of the inmate clinics, where an emergency was unfolding.

Two inmates, Ali Abdullah Ahmed and Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, had been brought in dead. A third, Yasser Talal al-Zahrani, had been rushed to the hospital on the US naval base but was declared dead there soon afterwards. The three men were found hanging from their necks, with their hands and feet bound and rags in their throats.