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This searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar
Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir's time inside America's most
notorious prison. Lakhdar and Mustafa were living quiet, peaceful
lives in Bosnia when, in October 2001, they were arrested and
accused of participating in a terrorist plot. After a three-month
investigation uncovered no evidence, all charges were dropped and
Bosnian courts ordered their freedom. However, under intense U.S.
pressure, Bosnian officials turned them over to American soldiers.
They were flown blindfolded and shackled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
where they were held in outdoor cages for weeks as the now-infamous
military prison was built around them. Guantanamo became their home
for the next seven years. They endured torture and harassment and
force-feedings and beatings, all the while not knowing if they
would ever see their families again. They had no opportunity to
argue their innocence until 2008, when the Supreme Court issued a
landmark ruling in their case, Boumediene v. Bush, confirming
Guantanamo detainees' constitutional right to challenge their
detention in federal court. Weeks later, the George W.
Bush–appointed federal judge who heard their case, stunned by the
absence of evidence against them, ordered their release. Now living
in Europe and rebuilding their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa are
finally free to share a story that every American ought to know.
Learn more at witnessesbook.com or donate to a crowdsourced
restitution fund at GoFundMe.com/witnesses.
This searing memoir shares the trauma and triumphs of Lakhdar
Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir's time inside America's most
notorious prison. Lakhdar and Mustafa were living quiet, peaceful
lives in Bosnia when, in October 2001, they were arrested and
accused of participating in a terrorist plot. After a three-month
investigation uncovered no evidence, all charges were dropped and
Bosnian courts ordered their freedom. However, under intense U.S.
pressure, Bosnian officials turned them over to American soldiers.
They were flown blindfolded and shackled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
where they were held in outdoor cages for weeks as the now-infamous
military prison was built around them. Guantanamo became their home
for the next seven years. They endured torture and harassment and
force-feedings and beatings, all the while not knowing if they
would ever see their families again. They had no opportunity to
argue their innocence until 2008, when the Supreme Court issued a
landmark ruling in their case, Boumediene v. Bush, confirming
Guantanamo detainees' constitutional right to challenge their
detention in federal court. Weeks later, the George W.
Bush–appointed federal judge who heard their case, stunned by the
absence of evidence against them, ordered their release. Now living
in Europe and rebuilding their lives, Lakhdar and Mustafa are
finally free to share a story that every American ought to know.
Learn more at witnessesbook.com or donate to a crowdsourced
restitution fund at GoFundMe.com/witnesses.
A multifaceted response to issues concerning personal privacy and
government power by writers, artists, and others The filmmaker,
artist, and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of
mass surveillance, "war on terror," drone program, Guantanamo, and
torture in her work for more than ten years. In 2013, Poitras was
contacted by Edward Snowden, a former National Security Agency
subcontractor who leaked classified information about
government-sponsored surveillance. Her resulting documentary,
Citizenfour, which won an Academy Award for best documentary
feature in 2015, is the third film in her post-9/11 film trilogy.
For this volume, Poitras has invited authors ranging from artists
and novelists to technologists and academics to respond to the
modern-day state of mass surveillance. Among them are the acclaimed
author Dave Eggers, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the former
Guantanamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, the writer and
researcher Kate Crawford, and Edward Snowden, to name but a few.
Some contributors worked directly with Poitras and the archive of
documents leaked by Snowden; others contributed fictional
reinterpretations of spycraft. The result is a "how-to" guide for
living in a society that collects extraordinary amounts of
information on individuals. Questioning the role of surveillance
and advocating for collective privacy are central tennets for
Poitras, who has long engaged with and supported free-software
technologists. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
Exhibition Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art
(02/05/16-05/01/16)
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