Progress Report 3, Guantanamo Bay

Guantanamo Bay- Group 1

Ayesha Syed

Claire Glezer

Preston Keiffer

Rachel Grossfeld

Greg Baumel

Dealing with the Remaining Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay

Our group has collectively researched our topic on Guantanamo Bay and found many sources ranging from journal articles to television shows and films. In order to give a visual portrayal of the mistreatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Rachel found a 60 Minutes segment from CBS News entitled, Nightmare at Guantanamo Bay. To accompany this visual section of our presentation, Claire also found clips from the documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, a 2007 film about the treatment and torture of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. This film is influential to our research because it also details the United State’s policy on torture, interrogation, and the treatment of foreign prisoners.

Ayesha, Preston, and Greg each contributed to the findings of articles from the New Yorker, the International Journal of Human Rights, the Journal of Criminal Law, and an article from International Debates. Moore’s article ties in with Claire’s film in detailing the United State’s military action in Afghanistan, the detention of prisoners, and then their transportation to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hertzberg’s article ties in with Moore’s, shedding light on the men who actually being held at the prison and the promise by President Barack Obama to close the prison.

Scheneider’s article, Human Rights Issues in Guantanamo Bay, explains the legal issues arising from the treatment of the prisoners. This gives our presentation a legal and criminal standpoint to accompany the morality and ethics of just the human rights standpoint. Our final article by Schulhofer concentrates on the law as well, describing the testimony of the New York University School of Law professor and his appearance before the U.S. Senate Committee on the treatment and dealings of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

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