This study aims to investigate the Guantanamo Bay detention camp from a state security and human security perspective. This study analyses the Guantanamo Bay detention camp from the USA’s and UN’s perspectives on state security and human security. The study further analyses whether or not the USA is violating human rights in Guantanamo Bay whilst invoking state security to justify it. The method that has been used is text analysis. The method did help to answer both the purpose and research questions of the study. The findings of the study shows that the USA built the Guantanamo Bay to imprison terrorists who posed a threat to the nation’s security, and that the UN has concluded that the USA acted within reasonable self-defense when it built Guantanamo Bay and imprisoned hundreds of inmates. However, the findings further show that human rights were not respected in Guantanamo Bay as the inmates were ill-treated. The UN concluded that the USA puts state security above human security by maintaining Guantanamo Bay.