America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror

Barbara Olshansky; Michael Ratner; Rachel Meeropol

ISBN 10: 1583226451 / ISBN 13: 9781583226452

Verlag: Seven Stories Press, 2004

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Inhaltsangabe:

The confirmation proceedings for Alberto R. Gonzales and Condeleeza Rice, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, triggered a national debate about the U.S. government’s controversial treatment of detainees and its practice of torture. At the heart of the debate is the question: Is the United States undermining democracy, freedom, and human rights in it’s effort to protect its citizens from terrorism? The authors of AMERICA'S DISAPPEARED answer, yes.
AMERICA'S DISAPPEARED describes how the U.S. government, in response to the events of 9/11, launched an unprecedented campaign of racial profiling, detentions, and deportations so grievous as to evoke the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It brings together, for the first time, detainees’ own testimonies along with analysis by the leading constitutional attorneys and human rights advocates. In addition to a detailed exploration of detention—the forms currently in use, and the conditions of each—the book challenges the Bush administration’s justifications for violating the Geneva Conventions and the most basic definitions of human rights.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: RACHEL MEEROPOL is a fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York City. BARBARA OLSHANSKY is the Leah Kaplan Distinguished Professor in Human Rights at Stanford University. MICHAEL RATNER is the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

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Titel: America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, ...
Verlag: Seven Stories Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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