Download or read book Guantanamo written by Michael Ratner and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and the people being held there by the United States.
Download or read book The Legal Rights of Guant namo Detainees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Legal Rights of Guantanamo Detainees written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal rights of Guant�namo detainees : what are they, should they be changed, and is an end in sight? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, December 11, 2007.
Download or read book The Legal Rights of Guant namo Detainees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rightlessness written by A. Naomi Paik and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless, stripped of the right even to have rights. Rightless people thus expose an essential paradox: while the United States purports to champion inalienable rights at home and internationally, it has built its global power in part by creating a regime of imprisonment that places certain populations perceived as threats beyond rights. The United States' status as the guardian of rights coincides with, indeed depends on, its creation of rightlessness. Yet rightless people are not silent. Drawing from an expansive testimonial archive of legal proceedings, truth commission records, poetry, and experimental video, Paik shows how rightless people use their imprisonment to protest U.S. state violence. She examines demands for redress by Japanese Americans interned during World War II, testimonies of HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guantanamo in the early 1990s, and appeals by Guantanamo's enemy combatants from the War on Terror. In doing so, she reveals a powerful ongoing contest over the nature and meaning of the law, over civil liberties and global human rights, and over the power of the state in people's lives.
Download or read book The Guantanamo Detainees written by Sacha Oudyn and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book S Hrg 110 900 written by U.S. Government Printing Office (Gpo) and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatment of battlefield Detainees in the War on Terrorism written by Jennifer Elsea and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After earlier criticism from human rights organizations and many foreign governments regarding the determination that the Geneva Conventions of 1949 do not apply to the detainees held in Cuba, President Bush shifted position with an announcement that Taliban fighters are covered by the 1949 Geneva Conventions, while al Qaeda fighters are not. Taliban fighters are not to be treated as prisoners of war (POW), however, because they reportedly fail to meet international standards as lawful combatants The decision is not likely to affect the treatment of any of the detainees held at the U.S. Naval Base at Guant namo Bay, Cuba, and is not likely to quell all of the criticism. While earlier reports that the detainees were being treated inhumanely appear to be unfounded, some allied countries and human rights organizations are criticizing the President's decision as relying on an inaccurate interpretation of the Geneva Convention for the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GPW). The U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCR) and some human rights organizations argue that all combatants captured on the battlefield are entitled to be treated as POWs until an independent tribunal has determined otherwise. The Organization of American States Inter-American Commission has ordered the United States to take "urgent measures" to establish the legal status of the detainees.
Download or read book The Guant namo Effect written by Laurel Emile Fletcher and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on a two-year study of former prisoners of the U.S. government’s detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reveals in graphic detail the cumulative effect of the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” Scrupulously researched and devoid of rhetoric, the book deepens the story of post-9/11 America and the nation’s descent into the netherworld of prisoner abuse. Researchers interviewed more than sixty former Guantánamo detainees in nine countries, as well as key government officials, military experts, former guards, interrogators, lawyers for detainees, and other camp personnel. We hear directly from former detainees as they describe the events surrounding their capture, their years of incarceration, and the myriad difficulties preventing many from resuming a normal life upon returning home. Prepared jointly by researchers with the Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley, and the International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Guantánamo Effect contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the U.S.’s commitment to international law during war time.
Download or read book Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center written by Michael John Garcia and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Jan. 22, 2009, Pres. Barack Obama issued an Executive Order requiring the Guantanamo detention facility to be closed as soon as practicable. This report provides an overview of major legal issues likely to arise as a result of actions to close the Guantanamo detention facility. It discusses legal issues related to the transfer or release of Guantanamo detainees, the continued detention of such persons in the U.S., and the possible removal of persons brought to the U.S. Discusses constitutional issues that may arise in the criminal prosecution of detainees. Also discusses: detainees¿ right to a speedy trial, the prohibition against prosecution under ex post facto laws, and limitations upon the admissibility of hearsay and secret evidence.
Download or read book The Guant namo Lawyers written by Mark P. Denbeaux and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States imprisoned more than 750 men at its naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees, ranging from teenagers to elderly men from over forty different countries, were held for years without charges, trial, or a fair hearing. Without any legal status or protection, they were truly outside the law: imprisoned in secret, denied communication with their families, and subjected to extreme isolation, physical and mental abuse, and, in some instances, torture. These are the detainees' stories, told by their lawyers because the prisoners themselves were silenced. It took lawyers who had filed habeas corpus petitions over two years to finally gain the right to visit and talk to their clients at Guantánamo. Even then, lawyers worked under severe restrictions, designed to inhibit communication and maximize secrecy. Eventually, however, lawyers did meet with their clients. This book contains over 100 personal narratives from attorneys who have represented detainees held at Guantánamo as well as at other overseas prisons, from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan to secret CIA jails or "black sites."
Download or read book Legal Limbo written by Erik M. P. Black and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutional Rights for Guantanamo Detainees written by Downey and published by West Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guant namo written by Council of Europe. Parliamentary Assembly and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has unanimously condemned the violation of the human rights of the prisoners held by the United States at the Guântanamo detention centre in Cuba, and it has demanded the closure of the base. This publication sets out the Assembly's arguments in this matter, along with the study by the European Commission for Democracy through Law as to the lawfulness of the base and whether there is a need for a change in international law to strengthen the Geneva Conventions.
Download or read book Human Rights Law and Counter Terrorism Strategies written by Diane Webber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, the United Nations urged Member States to ensure that counter terrorism policies guaranteed respect for human rights and the rule of law. This book demonstrates that, in many cases, counter terrorism policies relating to preventive detention, targeted killing and measures relating to returning foreign terrorist fighters have failed to respect human rights, and this encourages vulnerable people to be drawn towards supporting or committing acts of terrorism. Furthermore, in recent years, jurisprudence and public opinion in some countries have shifted from being at one stage more protective of human rights, to an acquiescence that some particularly draconian counter terrorism methods are necessary and acceptable. This book analyzes why this has happened, with a focus on the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel, and offers suggestions to address this issue. The work will be essential reading for students, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of human rights, humanitarian law, and counter terrorism.
Download or read book Legal Issues Regarding Military Commissions and the Trial of Detainees for Violations of the Law of War written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law of Armed Conflict written by Geoffrey S. Corn and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Law of Armed Conflict provides a complete operational scenario and introduction to the operational organization of United States forces. The focus remains on United States law perspective, balanced with exposure to areas where the interpretation of its allied forces diverge. Jus ad bellum and jus in bello issues are addressed at length. The casebook comes to students with stunning authority. All of the authors are active or retired United States Army officers with more than 140 years of collective military operational experience among them. Several have experience in both legal and operational assignments as well. They deliver a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the law of armed conflict, explaining the difference between law and policy in regulation of military operations.
