On this page, you will find a series of short clips from The Guantanamobile Project's DVD, a six-chapter menu-driven documentary-in-the making about the detentions in Guantanamo and their global implications. Included here are individual interviews with those involved in the legal struggles around Guantamo Bay as well as portions of the longer film. If you would like a free copy of this DVD-in- or are interested in arranging an educational screening, please contact Lisa Lynch at l.lynch@mindspring.com. For selections from the interviews we conducted on the road last summer, please see the "road interviews" section of this website.
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Longer Excerpts
GUANTANAMO, A RIGHTS FREE ZONE: PART ONE (2'37)
GUANTANAMO, A RIGHTS FREE ZONE: PART TWO (2’49)
GUANTANAMO, A RIGHTS FREE ZONE: PART THREE (3’59)
First chapter of the DVD, describing the history of the base and the analyzing the administration’s claim that it existed outside the jurisdiction of American Courts. Divided into three sections.
Selections from an interview with Gerhard Baisch, lawyer for a German-born Turkish Muslim named Selcuk Bilgun. In October of 2004, much to the surprise of German authorities, Selcuk was identified as a “suicide bomber” in the CSRT proceedings of detainee Murat Kurnaz, a German-born Turk who is a friend of Bilgun’s. Bilgun is alive and well and living in Bremen.
Shorter Excerpts
'IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANY OF US' (1'02)
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the precedent set by the sorts of violations of civil liberties currently taking place at Guantanamo Bay.
Jamie Fellner of Human Rights Watch and David Rose, author of Guantanamo, discuss the problems journalists and human rights workers face in determining the “truth” about conditions at Guantanamo.
ACLU President Nadine Strossen and NYLS professor Sadiq Reza discuss abusive interrogation procedures at Guantanamo; Rabiye Kurnaz, mother of detainee Murat Kurnaz, wonders about the fate of her son.
Rabiye Kurnaz, mother of detainee Murat Kurnaz, discusses conditions under which detainees were arrested in the months following 9/11.
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, discusses the arrest of two British detainees.
GUANTANAMO AFTER THE SUPREME COURT DECISION (’51)
Neal Katyal, lawyer for detainee Salim Hamdan, describes the legal procedures set in place by the administration in the wake of the supreme court decision.
David Cole, Author of Enemy Aliens, and Jamie Fellner of Human Rights Watch discuss problems with the military tribunal (military commission) system.
Baher Amzy, American lawyer for detainee Murat Kurnaz, describes the arrest and initial interrogation of his client, a German-born Turk who is being held at Guantanamo despite what Amzy and others describe as exculpatory evidence in his file.