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

• 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...

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