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)
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
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,…
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…
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,…
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.
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.
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…
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.”
Can a person held in a prison cell among neighbors who do not speak his language be as lonely as someone who is held incommunicado…
This past week President Obama affirmed what many people expected. Although the president had proclaimed soon after he was elected that he would shut Guantanamo…
Honigsberg has penned a powerful indictment of Bush’s War on Terror, vivid and horrifying and hard to put down.