| Contents |
A timeline of detention -- Notes on the text, redactions, and annotations -- Jordan-Afghanistan-GTMO, July 2002-February 2003 -- Before : Senegal-Mauritania, January 21, 2000-February 19, 2000 ; Mauritania, September 29, 2001-November 28, 2001 ; Jordan, November 29, 2001-July 19, 2002 -- GTMO : GTMO, February 2003-August 2003 ; GTMO, September 2003-December 2003 ; GTMO, 2004-2005. |
| Scope and content |
An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go. Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir--terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. Published now for the first time, Guantánamo Diary is a document of immense historical importance."--Provided by publisher. |
