Current Analysis The Guantánamo "Black Hole" Since January 2002, over 700 persons from 42 different countries have been detained without charge or right to counsel by the United States at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. While many detainees were captured by the US on battlefields in Afghanistan in late 2001, an unknown number of others were delivered Scott Cutler Shershow, Scott Michaelsen • 11 min read
MER Article American Justice, Ashcroft-Style The Bush administration's large-scale detentions of Arab and Muslim men -- without charge -- and draconian immigration restrictions are only two of its initiatives to erode civil liberties, civil rights and norms of procedural justice under cover of the "war on terrorism." Many initiatives were enab Keith Feldman • 6 min read