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English
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As you read this, thousands of men, women, and even children are being held in prisons around the world, not because they have committed violence, theft, or broken drug laws, but because they spoke against their governments. They are political prisoners; in some cases, they did not even intend to cross their nations' leaders-they just happened to get in the way of schemes of which they were not even aware. This book tells the stories of political...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY” —Time
Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Samuel has lived alone on a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country for more than two decades. He tends to his garden, his lighthouse, and his chickens, content with a solitary life. Routinely, the nameless bodies of refugees wash ashore, but Samuel--who understands that the government only values certain lives, certain deaths--always buries them himself. One day, though, he finds that one of these bodies is still breathing. As he...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
This historic collection of documents archived at the Nelson Mandela Foundation offers an unprecedented insight into Mandela's remarkable life--from his first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage.
10) The Mauritanian
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable military prosecutor,...
11) Guantanamo diary
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guant{225}namo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guant{225}namo 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...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Finally declassified and released after five years in the making, the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on the CIA's torture program, which describes in excruciating detail what Obama has called "harsh methods... inconsistent with our values as a nation," is now available to the American public--citizens who have a right to know the truth.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After more than a decade as a prison guard overseeing Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), Brand, with the assistance of Mail on Sunday Africa correspondent Jones, chronicles the unlikely personal relationship they built.
15) Rendition
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-I
16) The oath
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A spectacularly gripping documentary that unfolds like a great political thriller. It's the cross-cut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The Oath offers a rare window into a hidden realm and the international impact of the U.S. War on Terror.
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