Habeas corpus after 9/11 : confronting America's new global detention system / Jonathan Hafetz.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780814790793
- Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
- Habeas corpus -- United States
- Detention of persons -- United States
- Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention
- Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
- Detention of persons -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
- Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
- Law
- United States of America, USA
- Political control & freedoms
- Public international law: human rights
- 345.73056 23
- KF9011 .H34 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text examines the rise of the U.S.-run global detention system that emerged after 9/11 and the efforts to challenge it through habeas corpus (a petition to appear in court to claim unlawful imprisonment). Hafetz presents an insider's view of the detention of 'enemy combatants' and an explanation of the forces that keep the systems running.
Specialized.
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