Guardian reports based on more than 750 leaked us military files containing secret assessments of guantanamo detainees. Discover librarianselected research resources on guantanamo bay detention camp from the questia online library, including fulltext online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more. Articles based on a huge trove of secret documents leaked to the antisecrecy organization wikileaks and made available to the new york times by another source on the condition of anonymity. Witnesses of the unseen courageously exposes an ugly episode in u. Following its publication in october 2007, worthington has published articles supplementing the information in his book. Military documents detail life at guantanamo thousands of pages of secret military reports obtained by the new york times and shared with. The most significant section is the number towards the end, which is generally shortened, so that the example above would be known as isn 027. Andy worthington andy worthington is a historian based in london. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the guantanamo files. Department of defense announced it had transferred 10 more guantanamo detainees, this time to oman.
The stories of 774 detainees in americas illegal prison worthington, andy on. He is the author of the guantanamo files pluto, 2007. The campaigning lawyer clive stafford smith will be online at 1. The stories of 774 detainees in americas illegal prison.
The details for every detainee will be released daily over the coming month. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Just by virtue of having been written inside guantanamo, slahis book would be a triumph of. In the files, the prisoners are identified by nationality, with 47 countries in total listed alphabetically, from az for afghanistan to ym for yemen. The stories of the 774 detainees in americas illegal prison 1st by worthington, andy isbn. The stories of the 774 detainees in americas illegal prison. The military analysts files provide new details about the most infamous of their prisoners, khalid shaikh mohammed, the planner of the sept. There, he was detained without charge or trial, facing brutal torture, isolation and mistreatment.
From the 2016 tucson festival of books, theresa duncan, counsel to mohamedou ould slahi, a prisoner at guantanamo bay, talks about her clients life in the prison and his book. The book is a complete testimony of various people in america who have undergone malicious injustices and sufferings in detained prison camps. Located four hundred miles from the mainland united states, guantanamo bay in the guantanamo province of cuba is the oldest overseas american naval base. Obama didnt want to spend political capital to close guantanamo, leaving it fully functional for trump to use. It is also the only naval base in a communist country and the only one that has no political affiliation with the united states. Judging detainees risk, often with flawed evidence. This book transcends geography and time to take readers from boumediene and ait idirs early years of innocence to their long imprisonment in the cages of guantanamo. In 2006, four years after the illegal prison in guantanamo bay. He has been researching and writing about guantanamo since 2006, and has worked with the united nations, wikileaks, reprieve and cageprisoners. As mohamedou ould slahi has been unable to speak about his book himself, his incredible, moving story is being brought to life by celebrities who have been touched by his story. A former pentagon official told times mark thompson last month that some would like the guantanamo bay facility to be closed entirely, although thats very unlikely to happen.
Andy worthington in early 2006 the pentagon released 7000 pages of transcripts from tribunals assessing the status of the 759 men illegally detained in guantanamo bay. On sunday april 24, 2011 wikileaks began publishing 779 secret files from the notorious guantanamo bay prison camp. The reason that this is unconvincing is because, as former interrogator chris mackey a pseudonym explained in his book the interrogators, the us high command, based in camp doha, kuwait, stipulated that every prisoner who ended up in us custody had to be transferred to. Prisoners indexed by their internment serial number isn. Reviewed in the united kingdom on november 8, 2010. This article has been published in languages other than english. The guantanamo bay files leak also known as the guantanamo files, or colloquially, gitmo files began on 24 april 2011, when wikileaks, along with several independent news organizations, began publishing 779 formerly secret documents relating to detainees at the united states guantanamo bay detention camp established in 2002 after its invasion of afghanistan in 2001.
New foia documents show guantanamo suicides unlikely. Andy worthington is a freelance investigative journalist. The stories of the 774 detainees in americas illegal prison kindle edition by worthington, andy. Obama v trump on guantanamo and torture usa al jazeera. He is the cofounder of the close guantanamo campaign, and authored the book the guantanamo files.
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