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H. Candace Gorman

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- 27 May 08
A Kinder, Gentler Torture

While staying at his in-law's village in Afghanistan in December 2001, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, my client at Guantánamo,… more

vol. 32, iss. 06
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- 26 Feb 08
The Hippocratic Oath Dies in Gitmo

I have been representing Abdul Al-Ghizzawi, one of my Guantánamo clients, for two and a half years. The… more

vol. 32, iss. 03
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- 08 Jan 08
Catch-22 in the 21st Century

Government censors are making like Joseph Heller's character Yossarian and blacking out random information in letters from Guantánamo that has nothing to do with "national security"

vol. 32, iss. 01 censorship, guantanamo
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- 06 Dec 07
Third Time’s the Charm?

The military didn't even bother to retain most of the documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals conducted in 2004, so the government has no documents showing any reason for holding these men

vol. 31, iss. 12 censorship, civil rights, guantanamo
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- 18 Oct 07
Suicide and Spin Doctors

There are many ways for the oppressor to force himself into the mind of the oppressed, but one surefire way is through indefinite detention. Never knowing when--or if--you will be released is a cruel form of psychological torture and allows you to keep hope while simultaneously filling you with fear

vol. 31, iss. 11 guantanamo, prison, torture
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- 02 Oct 07
Inside the Secret Facility

In an Orwellian twist, the U.S. government monitors all correspondence between a Guantánamo attorney and her client

vol. 31, iss. 10 censorship, civil rights, guantanamo
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- 16 Aug 07
Gitmo’s Last Honest Man

Abraham found that "evidence" was generally gathered by inexperienced staff with little legal or intelligence training, and he got no assurance that he was given access to all available evidence on a detainee

vol. 31, iss. 09 civil rights, guantanamo
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- 19 Jul 07
Get Me Out of Gitmo

Most detainees at Guantánamo are willing and able to go home, but Bush's spin continues to dizzy our corporate media

vol. 31, iss. 08 guantanamo, media
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- 14 Jun 07
Torture By Another Name

The origins of "enhanced interrogation techniques" can be traced to the German Gestapo

vol. 31, iss. 07 civil rights, guantanamo, torture
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- 24 May 07
Locking Attorneys out of Guantánamo

Government launches war against habeas counsel under claim that lawyers are "acting as a conduit for the media"

vol. 31, iss. 06 civil rights, guantanamo, torture
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- 01 May 07
The Guantánamo Hunger Strike

Fasting prisoners force-fed twice a day as 30-inch plastic tubes are forced into their esophaguses

vol. 31, iss. 05 guantanamo, prison, war on terror
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- 29 Mar 07
Reading Harry Potter in Guantánamo

The prisoners at Guantánamo Bay--or Azkaban, as one of my clients, a Harry Potter fan, calls it--have had… more

vol. 31, iss. 04 guantanamo, war on terror
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- 13 Feb 07
Inside America’s Gulag

A Guantánamo lawyer reports from a parallel legal universe

vol. 31, iss. 02 civil rights, guantanamo, prison
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- 16 Jan 07
Diary of a Guantánamo Attorney

I fell into the world of Guantánamo in October 2005. The Chicago Council of Lawyers had organized a… more

vol. 31, iss. 01 civil rights, guantanamo