MERIP
Media Resource List, October 6, 2005
AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS
on the following topic:
- Senate votes to limit interrogation techniques of prisoners
of war
LISA
HAJJAR
Lisa
Hajjar teaches in the Law and Society Program at the University
of California-Santa Barbara. She is currently conducting interviews
and research on US interrogation and detention policies toward
foreign prisoners held in Guantanamo
Bay , Iraq and Afghanistan,
with a focus on the role of lawyers. She is the author of
Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in
the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press,
2005) and a member of the editorial committee of Middle
East Report . She commented today: "The McCain amendment
that was passed overwhelmingly today in the Senate is the
first significant effort on behalf of Congress to take responsibility
for detainee mistreatment. This is long overdue. Hopefully
the political forces behind this amendment -- including significant
numbers of Republicans and military leaders -- will now exert
enough pressure to push the House to adopt the amendment as
well."
Background
:
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Lisa Hajjar, "From
Nuremburg to Guantanamo: International Law and American Power
Politics," Middle East Report 229, Winter
2003.
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Lisa Hajjar, "Torture
and the Future," Middle East Report Online ,
May 2004.
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Charles Schmitz, "Beating
a Slow, Stubborn Retreat at Guantanamo Bay," Middle
East Report Online , May 2005.
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Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow, "The
Guantanamo 'Black Hole': The Law of War and the Sovereign
Exception," Middle East Report Online ,
January 11, 2004.
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