Twenty Years Later, Guantánamo Is Everywhere

January 14, 2022
The Boston Review

...It has taken decades of litigation to bring these gross abuses and arrogations of power to light and to seek, all too slowly, even the most remedial human rights protections for those detained at Guantánamo. In February 2002, just weeks after the first detainees were transported to the prison, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), led by the late, renowned anti-imperialist lawyer Michael Ratner, filed the first legal challenge to the military detention of men in Guantánamo. ...

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