About Guantanamo Bay Survivors Finally Break Their Silence | The Guantanamo Trap (Documentary, 2011)
No one escapes Guantanamo unscathed. Not the law, neither morale – and certainly not the people. The film tells the story of these people and depicts their search for a life after Guantanamo. Four people whose biographies are intrinsicaly linked to the Guantanamo Bay internment camp on Cuba: firstly, a former prisoner from Germany. Secondly, two military lawyers active in the so-ca led war against terror, who themselves were instrumentalised in the system of torture and eventualy plunged into a personal and moral crisis. And finaly, the Spanish lawyer Gonzalo Boye, who set himself the task of bringing several representatives of the Bush administration to justice for crimes against humanity. Murat Kurnaz was released from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after five years of imprisonment. He was detained without trial. In the same year, Matthew Diaz, Judge Advocate for the Navy, was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment for passing on the names of the detainees to a human rights organisation. Judge Advocate Diane Beaver was also deployed in Guantanamo. Here, she became the author of a
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- Guantanamo Bay Survivors Finally Break Their Silence | The Guantanamo Trap (Documentary, 2011)
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- 90 minutes
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- English
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