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Guantánamo diary

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

2015379 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015Little, Brown and Company · 379 pages · ENGISBN 9780316328685
  • 2015Back Bay Books · 432 pagesISBN 9780316389259
  • 2017Back Bay Books · 464 pagesISBN 9780316517881
  • 2017Canongate Books Ltd · 464 pagesISBN 9781786891853

"This is 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."--

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