Guantánamo Diary
by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Fourteen years. No charge. He wrote it all down.
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Slahi was detained without charge at Guantánamo Bay for fourteen years — one of the longest-held detainees in the facility's history. He wrote Guantánamo Diary inside the prison, in English, which is his fourth language, without a lawyer, under interrogation. The U.S. government redacted portions before the book's first publication in 2015; the Restored Edition reinstates them. The black bars that remain in the original are their own argument about what a permanent emergency permits a government to do to a person. Slahi was never charged with a crime. He was released in 2016. He did not need to write this book. He did.
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