Obama's Guantánamo : stories from an enduring prison / edited by Jonathan Hafetz.
2016
KZ6495 .O23 2016 (Mapit)
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Obama's Guantánamo : stories from an enduring prison / edited by Jonathan Hafetz.
Added Author
Hafetz, Jonathan, editor.
Imprint
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016.
Description
vi, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Twelve years after / Sabin Willett
The wrong person : how Barack Obama abandoned habeas corpus / Gary A. Isaac
President Obama's failure to transfer detainees from Guantánamo / J. Wells Dixon
The Boumediene Case after the Supreme Court / Mark Fleming
"Too dangerous to release?" : debunking the claim / Pardiss Kebriaei
Mental illness before Guantánamo / Shayana Kadidal
You love the law too much / Martha Rayner
First, do no harm / Alka Pradhan
Nourishing resistance : Tariq Ba Odah's eight-year hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay / Omar Farah
The "Taliban Five" and the prisoner exchange / Frank Goldsmith
Hamdan : the legal challenge to military commissions / Joseph McMillan
A tale of two detainees / David Frakt
More Kafka than Kafka / Jason Wright
Storytelling #Guantanamo / Aliya Hana Hussain.
The wrong person : how Barack Obama abandoned habeas corpus / Gary A. Isaac
President Obama's failure to transfer detainees from Guantánamo / J. Wells Dixon
The Boumediene Case after the Supreme Court / Mark Fleming
"Too dangerous to release?" : debunking the claim / Pardiss Kebriaei
Mental illness before Guantánamo / Shayana Kadidal
You love the law too much / Martha Rayner
First, do no harm / Alka Pradhan
Nourishing resistance : Tariq Ba Odah's eight-year hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay / Omar Farah
The "Taliban Five" and the prisoner exchange / Frank Goldsmith
Hamdan : the legal challenge to military commissions / Joseph McMillan
A tale of two detainees / David Frakt
More Kafka than Kafka / Jason Wright
Storytelling #Guantanamo / Aliya Hana Hussain.
Summary
"Obama's Guantánamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison describes President Obama's failure to close America's enduring offshore detention center, as he had promised to do within his first year in office, and the costs of that failure for those imprisoned there. Like its predecessor, Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law, Obama's Guantánamo consists of accounts from lawyers who have not only represented detainees, but also served as their main connection to the outside world. Their stories provide us with an accessible explanation of the forces at work in the detentions and place detainees' stories in the larger context of America's submission to fearmongering. These stories demonstrate all that is wrong with the prison and the importance of maintaining a commitment to human rights even in times of insecurity"--Publisher's web site.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KZ6495 .O23 2016
Language
English
ISBN
9781479852802 (cl ; alkaline paper)
1479852805 (cl ; alkaline paper)
1479852805 (cl ; alkaline paper)
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