Osa Archivum Catalog

Author/Creator

Language

English.

Published

Berkeley [Calif.] : Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley : International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, in partnership with Center for Constitutional Rights, 2008.

Physical Description

ix, 124 p. : 28 cm.

Contributor

Stover, Eric.

Smith, Stephen Paul.

University of California, Berkeley. International Human Rights Law Clinic.

University of California, Berkeley. Human Rights Center.

Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, N.Y.)

Summary

This sobering report by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley adds a new chapter to the chronicle of America's dismal descent into the netherworld of prisoner abuse since the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Carefully researched and devoid of rhetoric, it traces the missteps that disfigured an internationally admired nation and tainted its self-proclaimed ideals of humane treatment and justice for all. Through the voices of detainees formerly held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the report provides new insights into the lingering consequences of unjust detention and the corrupted processes developed in the desperate months following 9/11.

Subject

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Prisoners and prisons.

Prisoners of war > Abuse of > Cuba > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.

Prisoners of war > Abuse of > United States.

Prisoners of war > Government policy > United States.

Military interrogation > Government policy > United States.

Human rights > United States.

Detention of persons > Cuba > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.

United States > Foreign public opinion.

Responsibility

Laurel E. Fletcher, Eric Stover ; with Stephen Paul Smith ... [et al.].

Note