Alex Gilvarry's Guantanamo Bay

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The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was established as a response to the terrorist attacks on September 11th and to this day houses suspected terrorists awaiting their trials for committing acts of terrorism. Shortly after opening its doors in 2002, the camp began to be criticized for its violation of detainee’s rights, more specifically for failing to provide detainees with their charges as well as with legal counsel to challenge their imprisonment. Author Alex Gilvarry addressed these attacks in his novel, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, in which the protagonist Boyet (Boy) Hernandez was unexpectedly taken into custody one night. After hours of traveling blindfolded, Boy found himself in Guantanamo Bay, and without a clue as

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