Guantanamo Bay

  • Guantánamo Diary: How GITMO Institutionalized State Secrecy

    Guantánamo Diary: How GITMO Institutionalized State Secrecy

    Telling stories is rarely an easy task, but telling a story from inside a covert military detention facility is another matter—one that Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a 45-year-old Guantánamo Bay detainee, has managed to tell evocatively in Guantánamo Diary. After a lengthy legal battle to declassify Slahi’s memoir and approximately 2,000 black bar…

  • The Truth about Gitmo: A Conversation with Lowell Sachnoff

    The Truth about Gitmo: A Conversation with Lowell Sachnoff

    Full length interview with distinguished attorney Lowell Sachnoff on his work representing Guantanamo Bay detainees, what it will take to fulfill President Obama’s promise to close Gitmo, and an admonition to avoid repeating the sins of the past.

  • The Optimal Policy Response to Hunger Strikes: Identifying the Line Between Medical Treatment and Torture

    The Optimal Policy Response to Hunger Strikes: Identifying the Line Between Medical Treatment and Torture

    Physicians from Harvard University are concerned that, rather than helping patients, the US DOD policy requiring military doctors to force feed hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay violates professional ethics.