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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Habeas on the Gate
- Chapter 2. Back in the Fight
- Chapter 3. So, What Were You Doing?
- Chapter 4. The Little Old Lady in Switzerland
- Chapter 5. What Can I Do to Keep Myself from Going Crazy?
- Chapter 6. Manama in the Spring
- Chapter 7. Just Give Me Ten Minutes
- Chapter 8. Bearing Witness
- Chapter 9. The Purpose of Guantanamo Is to Destroy People, and I’ve Been Destroyed
- Chapter 10. Pizza and Checkers
- Chapter 11. He’s Suicidal Because of You
- Chapter 12. Sweet Dreams
- Chapter 13. Keeping the Peace
- Chapter 14. Connections
- Chapter 15. Code Black
- Chapter 16. Ramadan Comes Early
- Chapter 17. Life after (Near) Death
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- About Humanitas Media
- Copyright
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