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The Guantanamo 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/guantanamo. Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the United States imprisoned more than seven hundred and fifty men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Denbeaux, Mark P.
Otros Autores: Hafetz, Jonathan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 CultureReactions; 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.