My Guantánamo Nightmare

By artappraiser on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 1:18pm |

Guest op-ed by Lakhdar Boumediene, New York Times, Jan 7/8, 2012

Editor's note: Lakhdar Boumediene was the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush. He was in military custody at Guantánamo Bay from 2002 to 2009. This essay was translated by Felice Bezri from the Arabic. (Boumediene currently resides with his family in Provence in France.)

Excerpt, last sentence: I’m told that my Supreme Court case is now read in law schools. Perhaps one day that will give me satisfaction, but so long as Guantánamo stays open and innocent men remain there, my thoughts will be with those left behind in that place of suffering and injustice.

URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/my-guantanamo-nightmare.html