Hardcover, 256 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2007 by Palgrave Macmillan.
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In October 2001, nineteen-year-old Murat Kurnaz traveled to Pakistan to visit a madrassa. During a security check a few weeks after his arrival, he was arrested without explanation and for a bounty of $3,000, the Pakistani police sold him to U.S. forces. He was first taken to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he was severely mistreated, and then two months later he was flown to Guantanamo as Prisoner #61. For more than 1,600 days, he was tortured and lived through hell. He was kept in a cage and endured daily interrogations, solitary confinement, and sleep deprivation. Finally, in August 2006, Kurnaz was released, with acknowledgment of his innocence. Told with lucidity, accuracy, and wisdom, Kurnaz's story is both sobering and poignant--an important testimony about our turbulent times when innocent people get caught in the crossfire of the war on terrorism.
Subjects
- Political imprisonment
- Political And Civil Rights
- Prison Life
- Political Science
- Biography / Autobiography
- Politics/International Relations
- Political
- Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights
- Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism
- Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / Terrorism
- Biography
- Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
- Cuba
- Government policy
- Guantâanamo Bay Naval Base
- Human rights
- Legal status, laws, etc.
- Prisoners of war
- United States