Hundreds of men were rounded up and wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as part of the war on terror – where torture and abuse were commonplace. In a new book, human rights lawyer Eric Lewis examines how the utter disregard for the rule of law set America on a dark and disturbing new path
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Hundreds of men were rounded up and wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as part of the war on terror – where torture and abuse were commonplace. In a new book, human rights lawyer Eric Lewis examines how the utter disregard for the rule of law set America on a dark and disturbing new path
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