Eight o'clock ferry to the windward side
Subtitle: seeking justice in Guantánamo Bay
By: Clive Stafford Smith.
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781568583747
Subjects: Detention of persons -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base; Combatants and noncombatants (International law); War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base; Habeas corpus -- United States; Criminal procedure -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); International law; War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Habeas corpus; Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba); Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba)
Description: A human rights lawyer who has had independent access to the prisoners at Guantanamo documents the realities of their experiences while citing the near-absurdities that mark their incarceration, from an absence of security at the local airport to the army's order to protect iguanas on the roads.
Notes: Includes index.