President Obama said at his news conference yesterday, “I continue to believe that we’ve got to close Guantanamo.” He then added, “Congress determined that they…
WTG in the News
In 2011, after determining that more than 15 days without human contact can have serious effects on a prisoner’s mental health, a special rapporteur for the United Nations’ Human Rights Council officially recognised prisoner isolation as a form of torture.
Solitary linguistic confinement, The Economist
In Memory of Adnan Latif: ‘Timmy’ and a Hospital Corpsman in Guantanamo
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
The military staff nicknamed him “Timmy,” after the disabled character in the animated show “South Park.” He was fed through feeding tubes pushed up through his nostrils and down into his stomach.
WTG in the News
It cannot be for Obama to continue to point fingers to others, because of his failure to fulfill his promises to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and to achieve justice. (in Arabic)
WTG in the News
KPFK Radio Panel about Guantanamo with Peter Jan Honigsberg, David Glazier, Prof. of Law, Loyola Law School and Jonathan Hafetz, Prof. of Law, Seton Law
The politics preventing the closure of Guantanamo Bay, The Scholars’ Circle & Insighters Radio
In Guantanamo, Obama’s Promise of Hope Has Transformed Into Hopelessness
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By The Huffington Post
Over the past several weeks, the media has covered hunger strikes in Guantanamo. The coverage suggests that the military has interfered with the detainees’ Korans,…
Isolated Inside the Administration
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
People who have been following the cycle of violence after 9/11 — in particular the human rights and rule of law violations that occurred in…
In Search of a Forum for the Families of the Guantanamo Disappeared
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By 90 Denver University Law Review 433 (2012)
Abstract: The United States government has committed grave human rights violations by disappearing people during the past decade into the detention camps in Guantanamo Bay,…
WTG in the News
Torturous, painful, hopeless, oppressive, unrelenting: these are the words used by Moazzam Begg to describe his three years of detention in the United States prison camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. One of the world’s most infamous prisons is 10 years old this week. A decade of controversy.
Guantanamo Bay: 10 Years of Controversy, Radio Netherlands Worldwide
WTG in the News
Ten years ago, the first 20 prisoners arrived at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Eventually that number would go up to nearly 700.
Spielberg, Guantanamo, and Me
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By California Lawyer
I was flying home from Europe recently, after interviewing several former Guantanamo detainees in France and Switzerland for a documentary and archival project. When the…
The Defining Moment of the Decade
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By The Huffington Post
Sometime after 9/11, I remarked to a friend that I wish I had kept a copy of the newspaper describing the event. My friend looked at me and replied, “You should have held on to the newspaper from the day before.”