A 4 page essay that offers an argumentative essay concerning the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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no one was ever released from an oubliette, or even given food or water. An oubliette was prisoners were thrown and left to die, forgotten by the society above, as
well as by their captors. The American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was created to be a "legal black hole, a place where U.S. and international human rights
would go to die" (Lithwick 18). This statement refers to the fact that it has been U.S. policy since the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 to suspend the codes
of decency, freedom and international law that are typically associated with the United States and honored by the American people. The Bush administration has even argued that these
prisoners are not entitled to the right of habeas corpus. This legal term refers to one of the most effective safeguards of personal liberty, and conversely, an effective control on
government power, that has ever been devised. A writ of habeas corpus compels prison officials to allow a prisoner a day in court, in which they have to show convincing
proof of their authority to keep that prisoner incarcerated. If they do not prove to the court that this authority exists, the prisoner must be released. The prisoners at
Guantanamo have been denied habeas corpus. Recently 17 Ulghurs-Chinese Muslims were recently released from Guantanamo, after spending six years in detention on trumped up charges that were fabricated by Afghans
interested in earning the $5,000 bounty offered by U.S. authorities for turning in anyone suspected of terrorism (Lithwick 18). While the fabrication was soon discovered and the men were cleared
for release in 2004, Washington delayed their release, basically, because they did not know where to send them (Lithwick 18). However, as Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a "landmark