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Title Obama's Guantánamo : stories from an enduring prison / edited by Jonathan Hafetz
Published New York ; London : New York University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (iv, 229 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
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 Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Obama, Barack.
SUBJECT Obama, Barack
Obama, Barack fast
Obama, Barack 1961- gnd
Subject Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
SUBJECT Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp fast
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Camp Delta gnd
Subject Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
Detention of persons -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
Military courts -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Detention of persons -- United States
Military courts -- United States
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Detention of persons
Military courts
Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Militärgericht
Rechtsstellung
Kriegsgefangener
Krigsrätter.
Frihetsberövande (juridik)
Krigsfångar -- juridik och lagstiftning.
Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
United States
Bucht von Guantánamo
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Hafetz, Jonathan, editor.
ISBN 9781479868070
1479868078