Posts Tagged ‘guantanamo’
Why lawyers for accused terrorists aren’t, er, terrorists
A piece I worked on during my last two months in the States just appeared on the CSM’s website. It’s about lawyers who defend prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. It started out being a story about how it affects their personal and professional lives, but it ended up, thanks in large part to Liz Cheney, being [...]
The unintended consequences of American torture
This week, I’ve been reading The Translator by Daoud Hari. Hari spent a few years fixing and translating for Western journalists covering the conflict in Darfur. He has an easygoing voice, and the book is full of lovely details and detours, like this one: …A camel’s hooves, by the way, have cracks and other marks [...]
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