The Guantanamo Trap

In August 2006, Murat Kurnaz was released from the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He had been detained for five years, without trial. In the same year, Matthew Diaz, Judge Advocate for the Navy was sentenced to six months of imprisonment for passing on the names of the detainees to a human rights organization. Four years earlier, in 2002, Judge Advocate Diane Beaver was also deployed in Guantanamo. Here, she became the author of a legal memorandum that would later be nicknamed, 'The Torture Memo.' Seven years later, in March 2009, Spanish lawyer Gonzalo Boye leads a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials for allegedly covering up the torture of inmates in Guantanamo Bay.

Their stories are powerful in their own way and depict very different sides of the argument of what this prison has come to be known for.