America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the War on Terror (Open Media Series) - Softcover

Olshansky, Barbara; Ratner, Michael; Meeropol, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583226451 ISBN 13: 9781583226452

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583226451
• ISBN 13: 9781583226452
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248