Amnesty International commemorates one-year anniversary of Senate Torture Report with day of action
Wednesday, December 9th marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture. While publication of the report did much to make visible the horrific… Read more »
Three guesses which book won’t be available at the Guantanamo Bay Library
Prison libraries aren’t just where you stage a furtive conversation between prisoner characters, because obviously that’s where guards won’t notice anything; they’re a key element in the rehabilitative mission. The… Read more »
Russell Brand’s Booky Wook 2: Too Crude for Guantanamo?
Writing in The New Statesman, Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British detainee at Guantanamo Bay, lifts the lid on what American authorities deem unfit for reading at the controversial (and perpetually… Read more »
Cataloging Guantanamo: inside the detention camp’s library
Although Barack Obama came into office promising to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, both that promise and the prison itself have largely and unfortunately been ignored by both… Read more »