The ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û and other organizations have written about it exhaustively in blog posts, legal briefs, reports and op-eds. But for all the information that's already out there, London-based journalist Andy Worthington has recently made available This online resource supplements Worthington's 2007 book, , which chronicles, through information gleaned from the Pentagon's own records released through the Freedom of Information Act, individual histories of each detainee who was imprisoned at Gitmo since it opened in January, 2002.
Today we published a new webpage that features a podcast interview between Andy Worthington and Jonathan Hafetz, Staff Attorney for the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û's National Security Project. They discuss what sets the "Definitive List" apart from other detainee databases, what many of the detainees have in common, and the plight of , an ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û client who was a teenager when he was captured. (A transcript of the interview is also available .)
You might think of Worthington's "Definitive Prisoners List" as "Everything You Always Wanted to Know ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Guantánamo Detainees, But Didn't Know Where to Begin."
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