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H. Candace Gorman
H. Candace Gorman is a civil rights attorney in Chicago. She blogs regularly about legal issues surrounding Guantanamo detainees at <a href= “http://gtmoblog.blogspot.com”> The Guantanamo Blog.</a>
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A Kinder, Gentler Torture
While staying at his in-law's village in Afghanistan in December 2001, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, my client at Guantánamo, MORE
Views · May 27, 2008
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The Hippocratic Oath Dies in Gitmo
I have been representing Abdul Al-Ghizzawi, one of my Guantánamo clients, for two and a half years. MORE
Views · February 26, 2008
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Catch-22 in the 21st Century
Government censors are making like Joseph Heller's character Yossarian and blacking out random information in letters from Guantánamo that has nothing to do with "national security" MORE
Views · January 8, 2008
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Third Time’s the Charm?
The military didn't even bother to retain most of the documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals conducted in 2004, so the government has no documents showing any reason for holding these men MORE
Views · December 6, 2007
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Suicide and Spin Doctors
There are many ways for the oppressor to force himself into the mind of the oppressed, but one surefire way is through indefinite detention. Never knowing when--or if--you will be released is a cruel form of psychological torture and allows you to keep hope while simultaneously filling you with fear MORE
Views · October 18, 2007
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Inside the Secret Facility
In an Orwellian twist, the U.S. government monitors all correspondence between a Guantánamo attorney and her client MORE
Views · October 2, 2007
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Gitmo’s Last Honest Man
Abraham found that "evidence" was generally gathered by inexperienced staff with little legal or intelligence training, and he got no assurance that he was given access to all available evidence on a detainee MORE
Views · August 16, 2007
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Get Me Out of Gitmo
Most detainees at Guantánamo are willing and able to go home, but Bush's spin continues to dizzy our corporate media MORE
Views · July 19, 2007
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Torture By Another Name
The origins of "enhanced interrogation techniques" can be traced to the German Gestapo MORE
Views · June 14, 2007
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Locking Attorneys out of Guantánamo
Government launches war against habeas counsel under claim that lawyers are "acting as a conduit for the media" MORE
Views · May 24, 2007