The prisoners at Guantánamo Bay--or Azkaban, as one of my clients, a Harry Potter fan, calls it--have had no access to a hearing in a court of law. Instead, Guantánamo's inmates are subjected to two kangaroo procedures: Combatant Status Review Tribunals [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
While I enjoyed reading this article and applaud the broader point Ms. Gordan is trying to make, I am a bit confused by a small technicality. Voldemort did not run the prison of Azkaban in the Harry Potter series, in fact many of his trusted allies were imprisoned there. So Bush being Voldemort doesn’t really correlate nicely into Guantanamo being Azkaban. I feel like a pretty big nerd right now but I was just wondering if I am confused or missed the point of the article or if it was simply an error in translation on the author’s part.
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