"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 predecesso…
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What do you believe in? James Yee believed in God and America and one of those got him thrown in jail.
What do you believe in? James Yee believed in God and America and one of those got him thrown in jail.
In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance notice, the military's preparations for this group of predominantly unimportant ne'er-do-wells were hastily …
Sovereign states and their territory -- The nature of territorial leases -- The Guantanamo Bay lease -- Objectives of the lease -- Jurisdiction at Guantanamo Bay -- Duration of the lease -- The annual rent payments -- Recent and current issues -- The lease in U.S.-Cuban relation…
Als der 19jährige Murat Kurnaz, in Bremen geboren und aufgewachsen, Anfang Oktober 2001 nach Pakistan reist, um eine Koranschule zu besuchen, ahnt er nicht, welches Martyrium ihn erwartet - und dass er seine Familie viereinhalb Jahre nicht wiedersehen wird. Bei einer Sicherheits…
