Obama's Guantánamo : : Stories from an Enduring Prison / / ed. by Jonathan Hafetz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Dixon, J. Wells,; Farah, Omar,; Fleming, Mark,; Frakt, David,; Goldsmith, Frank,; Hafetz, Jonathan,; Hussain, Aliya Hana,; Isaac, Gary A.,; Kadidal, Shayana,; Kebriaei, Pardiss,; McMillan, Joseph,; Pradhan, Alka,; Rayner, Martha,; Willett, Sabin,; Wright, Jason,
• HerausgeberIn: Hafetz, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay has become the symbol of an unprecedented detention system of global reach and immense power. Since the 9/11 attacks, the news has on an almost daily basis headlined stories of prisoners held indefinitely at Guantánamo without charge or trial, many of whom have been interrogated in violation of restrictions on torture and other abuse. These individuals, once labeled “enemy combatants” to eliminate legal restrictions on their treatment, have in numerous instances been subject to lawless renditions between prisons around the world. The lines between law enforcement and military action; crime and war; and the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of power have become dangerously blurred, and it is time to unpack the evolution and trajectory of these detentions to devise policies that restore the rule of law and due process.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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Twelve Years After -- 2. The Wrong Person: How Barack Obama Abandoned Habeas Corpus -- 3. President Obama’s Failure to Transfer Detainees from Guantánamo -- 4. The Boumediene Case after the Supreme Court -- 5. “Too Dangerous to Release”: Debunking the Claim -- 6. Mental Illness before Guantánamo -- 7. You Love the Law Too Much -- 8. First, Do No Harm -- 9. Nourishing Resistance: Tariq Ba Odah’s Eight-Year Hunger Strike at Guantánamo Bay -- 10. The “Taliban Five” and the Prisoner Exchange -- 11. Hamdan: The Legal Challenge to Military Commissions -- 12. A Tale of Two Detainees -- 13. More Kafka than Kafka -- 14. Storytelling #Guantanamo -- About the Contributors -- Index