Life at Guantánamo Bay: Stories of the 774 Detainees at Guantánamo Bay [New America Foundation]

Start: Mar 12 2008 - 12:30pm

End: Mar 12 2008 - 2:00pm

Event Description:

Life at Guantánamo Bay
Stories of the 774 Detainees at Guantánamo Bay

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Ave, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC

During the last six years, the U.S. Administration has held nearly 800 alleged terror suspects without trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 500 of these men have now been released, but their stories - and the stories of those who remain - are largely unknown. Fragments have emerged in books and interviews, and in declassified accounts from the detainees' lawyers, but until now there has been no comprehensive overview of all their cases.

In The Guantánamo Files, based on a detailed analysis of over 8,000 pages of transcripts released by the Pentagon, Andy Worthington, a London-based historian and journalist, brings to life Guantánamo's largely anonymous detainees.

Join the New America Foundation for a discussion of Guantánamo's detainees with Andy Worthington, Peter Bergen, and attorney Tom Wilner, who is counsel of record for a group of detainees in cases pending in the Supreme Court, and has been involved in the legal challenges to Guantánamo since the prison opened in January 2002.

Featured Speakers
Andy Worthington
Historian, Journalist, and Researcher, Reprieve
Author, The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison

Tom Wilner
Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP
Attorney for Guantánamo Detainees

Moderator
Peter Bergen
Schwartz Senior Fellow, New America Foundation
Terrorism Analyst, CNN

Copies of The Guantanamo Files will be sold at the event.

To RSVP for this event, reply to this email: communications@newamerica.net with name, affiliation, and contact information.

If you have questions, call or email Liz Wu at (202) 986-2700 x315 or wu@newamerica.net.

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