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The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, the Center on Law and Security, and NYU Press are pleased to invite you to our book launch and discussion of "The Guantanamo Lawyers", featuring the editors of the book and several contributors. "The Guantanamo Lawyers" contains more than 100 personal narratives from attorneys who have represented detainees held at “Gitmo” as well as at other “black sites” such as Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
"This collection of stirring narrative, government data and testimony, edited by two of the lawyers for those detained by the Bush administration as unlawful combatants at Guantánamo, puts America on notice about the issues of civil liberties and constitutional freedoms. Denbeaux and Hafetz have edited together accounts from 100 other detainee advocates into a chronological narrative of legal battles: to gain access to their clients, to establish the detainees’ right to habeas corpus, to describe the occupants of “Gitmo” (at its peak, 750 from 40 countries) and the torture and mistreatment of detainees. They describe their clients as underlings, working stiffs and not the high officials of any terrorist group. Plowing through legal red tape, bureaucratic mumbo jumbo and political maneuvering, Denbeaux and Hafetz fight for the men who are isolated without diversions or outside contact. The desperate words, quoted here, of Gitmo detainees on torture grab the heart and do not let go. This compelling book on the American penal colony and its residents is a cautionary tale of overzealous executive wartime power and the awful mess it sometimes leaves behind."
Our Panelists:
- Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, editors and the following contributors:
- Baher Azmy, Professor of Law, Seton Hall
- Ramzi Kassem, Asst Professor of Law, CUNY School of Law
- Jayne Huckerby, Research Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, Adjunct Asst Professor at New York University Law School
- Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights
- With an introduction by Karen Greenberg, Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security
Event will be followed by a reception, at which copies of the book will be available for purchase.
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