Obama's Guantánamo : stories from an enduring prison / edited by Jonathan Hafetz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hafetz, Jonathan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners of war--Legal status, laws, etc--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.

Prisoners of war.

Guantaýÿnamo Bay Detention Camp.

Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.

Detention of persons--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.

Detention of persons.

Prisoners of war--Legal status, laws, etc.

Military courts.

Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.

Military courts--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.

Obama, Barack.

Prisoners of war--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Detention of persons--United States.

United States.

Military courts--United States.

Local Subjects:

Guantaýÿnamo Bay Detention Camp.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iv, 229 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Obama's Guantánamo.

ISBN:

9781479868070

1479868078

OCLC:

948286652

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.