The Guantánamo Lawyers : Inside a Prison Outside the Law /
Read free excerpts from the book at http://www.theguantanamolawyers.com and explore the complete archive of narratives at http://dlib.nyu.edu/guantanamoFollowing the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cub...
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2009]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Prelude
- 1 Representing the "Worst of the Worst"
- How and Why the Lawyers Started Representing Detainees
- 2 Getting behind the Wire
- Rasul/Al Odah: The Right to Representation
- 3 Uncovering Guantánamo's Human Face
- First Impressions
- Rendered: How the Detainees Got to Guantánamo
- Female Attorneys
- Family Members
- Interpreters
- 4 Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts
- Barriers to Representation
- The No-Hearing Hearings: Combatant Status Review Tribunals
- Military Commissions
- Political Maneuvering
- Boumediene v. Bush: The Death Knell for Prisons beyond the Law
- 5 Tortured
- A Product of Torture Culture
- Reactions
- Hunger Strikes
- Suicides
- 6 Alternative Forms of Advocacy
- 7 Leaving Guantánamo
- Stuck in Limbo
- Out but Not Free
- Happy Endings?
- 8 Guantánamo beyond Cuba: A Global Detention System outside the Law
- Guantánamo Comes to America
- Black Sites
- Coda
- Timeline: Guantánamo and the "War on Terror"
- Contributors