Webview : Crisis At Guantanamo - May 10

07 May 2013

From: Center on National Security at Forham Law

Crisis at Guantanamo:

Will the Prison Ever Close?

Join Carol Rosenberg, David H. Remes, Dr. Gerald E. Thomson, and Karen Greenberg for a discussion about current conditions at Guantanamo and the feasibility of closing down the prison.

Guantanamo Bay prison is in crisis.  At least 100 inmates, many of whom have been cleared for release, are participating in a hunger strike to protest years of detention without charges.  Prison officials have resorted to force-feeding prisoners, a practice that many medical and human rights experts claim is inhumane and illegal.  Some prisoners may be close to death.  At a press conference on Tuesday, President Obama criticized the prison and vowed to renew efforts to close it.

Friday, May 10th, 12pm - 1:30pm (lunch served)

Fordham University at Lincoln Center

12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Building

113 West 60th Street, NYC

Carol Rosenberg is the military-affairs reporter at The Miami Herald.  In 2011 she received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for her nearly decade of reporting on the Guantanamo Bay prison.

David H. Remes is an American lawyer who has served as a pro bono attorney for several of the prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay prison.  He was involved in litigation surrounding the Detainees Treatment Act of 2005, which denied prisoners the ability to submit habeas corpus petitions.

Dr. Gerald E. Thomson is the Lambert and Sonneborn Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Columbia University, and the former president of the American College of Physicians.  He also served on The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment, an independent, bipartisan panel which has recently released an exhaustive report on the capture, detention, and interrogation of terror suspects during the Clinton, Bush and Obama Administrations.  The report is available at:   http://detaineetaskforce.org/report/

Karen J. Greenberg (moderator) is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School.  She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (2009), which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post and Slate.com

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