ABOUT OUR INTERVIEW SUBJECTS:
Baher Amzy is a law professor at Seton Hall University and the American lawyer for German-born Turkish detainee Murat Kurnaz.
Gerhard Baisch is a Bremen-based attorney who represents Selcuk Bilgin, the man called a "suicide bomber" in Kurnaz's CSRT proceedings.
David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, and legal affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is also the author of the 2003 book Enemy Aliens.
Bernard Docke is a well-known civil rights lawyer in Germany who has taken on Kurnaz's case.
Mark Dow is an immigration rights activist and the author of American Gulag, a book about US immigration prisons. He was in Guantanamo in the early 1990s helping Haitian refugees.
Jamie Fellner is the director of the U.S. Program of Human Rights Watch. The program documents and advocates human rights abuses by U.S. federal, state and local officials, particularly abuses in the criminal justice system, prisons and jails, and the treatment of immigrants and minorities. Since September 11, 2001, the program has also sought to ensure that human rights are not sacrificed in the country's counter-terrorism efforts.
Eugene R. Fidell is a head of the Military Practice Group of the law firm Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell. He also directs the Institute for Military Justice, a nonprofit focusing on promoting fairness in the military justice system. Finally also served as counsel for James Yee, the Muslim chaplain accused of spying at Guantánamo and then exonerated.
Jonathan M. Hansen is a historian andthe author of The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890-1920. He is writing a book about the history of Guantánamo Bay.
Rabiye Kurnaz is a Turkish-born German resident whose son, Murat Kurnaz, is currently detained at Guantánamo.
Robert A. Levy is Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His writing has been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, National Review, Weekly Standard, Journal of the American Medical Association and numerous other media.
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, oversaw the case arguing that Guantánamo Bay detainees should have the right to contest their detentions in US courts.
Corin Redgrave, stage and screen actor, is the co-founder of the Guantánamo Human Rights Commission, an organization campaigning for justice for the thousands interned in Guantánamo and elsewhere.
Sadiq Reza teaches courses in criminal law and procedure. His current research focuses on criminal procedure in Islamic law and in countries of the contemporary Muslim world. He also frequently writes and speaks about issues of U.S. criminal procedure in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
David Rose is a journalist who writes for the British paper the Guardian. His long piece on Guantánamo in Vanity Fair was the first to extensively discuss conditions faced by the prisoners there. He has just finished a book on the subject.
Nadine Strossen is President of the American Civil Liberties Union.