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.”
Coping with Loneliness in Guantanamo
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By The Huffington Post
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…
Without Human Rights, We are Just Another Country
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By The Huffington Post
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…
WTG in the News
Honigsberg has penned a powerful indictment of Bush’s War on Terror, vivid and horrifying and hard to put down.
Best Books 2009, Publishers Weekly
Transforming Lives on This Side of the GTMO Wire
By Peter Jan Honigsberg
Published By The Huffington Post
Much has been written on the lives of detainees in Guantanamo post September 11, 2001. But relatively little has been written about the lives of…
WTG in the News
I urge readers to visit the website [which] provides excellent insight into the horrendous abuses initiated by the US administration in the ‘War on Terror.’