Through the Gates of Hell
American Injustice at Guantanamo Bay
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Through the Gates of Hell
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Mike Lenz
概要
An inspiring true story about an American attorney and his client confronting prejudice and persecution in a prison outside the law, as one fights for the other’s freedom, and the other fights for his life.
“We’ll be watching,” the sergeant said, pointing at a video monitor inside Camp Echo’s guard booth. “For your protection.” In 2004, attorney Joshua Colangelo-Bryan arrived at Guantanamo Bay to meet Jaber Mohammed, one of six Bahraini detainees his firm had agreed to represent. Colangelo-Bryan had heard these men were “among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth,” as Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put it. Colangelo-Bryan didn’t buy the rhetoric but did find himself wondering if he was about to meet a killer. Far from being threatening, though, Mohammed welcomed Colangelo-Bryan, even as his ankle was shackled to the floor. Why was Mohammed there? Was he guilty of a crime? These were among the questions Colangelo-Bryan had to answer. Surprisingly, the two spoke for hours about their lives. Mohammed also detailed the inhumane conditions at the prison, including abuse by guards and solitary confinement. A friendship grew over time, as Colangelo-Bryan worked to bring justice to Mohammed. The Bush administration claimed any “enemy combatant” could be held in Guantanamo forever without a trial, and it became clear that litigation was unlikely to free the Bahrainis. And so, as Mohammed lost hope, Colangelo-Bryan devised a plan to leverage the media and pressure the Bahraini government to negotiate for the release of its citizens. Colangelo- Bryan’s long fight for the Bahrainis was ultimately successful, and in 2007, after several suicide attempts, Mohammed was freed. Through the Gates of Hell is a powerful account of an unlikely friendship and what it takes to fight for human rights in the post–9/11 era.
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“Joshua Colangelo-Bryan’s Through the Gates of Hell speaks with great open-heartedness and compassion about some of the victims of the American injustice in the first decade of this century, but it’s also extremely relevant to where we find ourselves now. These pages are not only deeply moving but urgently necessary.”
“The brutality of Guantanamo detention and the labyrinthine US legal system stacked against detainees make the relationship between a New York lawyer and a Guantanamo detainee inherently fraught. Joshua Colangelo-Bryan describes with touching sensitivity and humility the process of building trust and ultimately a friendship. The close relationship motivates his relentless and creative quest to free his client. A powerful lesson in empathetic, strategic lawyering.”
“Wary, skeptical, with his own backstory of upheaval, a young attorney returns again and again to the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention camp where the ‘vicious killers’ he represents are held without charges and have little hope of due process. It is a tale not only of soul-crushing circumstances with catch-22-like protocols but also of perseverance, ingenuity, humor, and ultimately friendship. Be prepared to lose sleep with this tightly written, unexpectedly moving page-turner!”
“In Through the Gates of Hell, Josh Colangelo-Bryan chronicles his struggle to free Jaber Mohammed, known as prisoner #361. Representing Jaber is difficult because he is one of the suspected terrorists being held in Guantanamo Bay. The book is filled with drama, empathy, and even moments of humor. Colangelo-Bryan takes the reader inside one of the least accessible prisons on earth, and emerges with a story that transforms Jaber’s life, as well as his own.”
“Of the many Guantanamo stories, few are so well told. This is a tale—beautifully written—of a volunteer lawyer confronting an offshore prison’s powerful mythology, of legal crumbs begrudged to him by the courts, and most poignantly of a client’s acute depression and its nearly horrific result. Nearly so: But with no quit in him, the author held fast to the peculiar idea that some good might come of his work. And it did. A wonderful and inspiring book.”
“When you pick up a book written by a lawyer for Guantanamo detainees, knowing that it will contain an account of his work representing those clients, the last thing you expect to find is a love story. And yet, when a movie version of this book is made, the bromance between Joshua Colangelo-Bryan and Jaber Muhammed will surely be highlighted.”