 | The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law Subjects: Prisoners of war -- Legal status laws etc. -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base; Detention of persons -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base; Lawyers -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base; Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp; Prisoners of war -- Legal status la; 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 Guantanamo, 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. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved Hafetz Jonathan : Jonathan Hafetz is Associate Professor at Seton Hall Law School and has litigated numerous landmark habeas corpus detention cases. He also is the co-editor (with Mark Denbeaux) of The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (NYU Press, 2009).Denbeaux Mark P. : Mark Denbeaux is a professor at Seton Hall Law School, where he also directs the Center for Policy and Research. |
