Guantanamo Boy (novel)
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Guantanamo Boy is a novel by Anna Perera, about a youth from the United Kingdom who ends up being held in extrajudicial detention at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.[1] It is a novel aimed at young adults. Perera intended to help inform readers of the dangers to public safety posed by a paniced surrender of civil liberties.
References
- ↑ Sean Kemsley (2013-08-20). "Amnesty teen takeover: Anna Perera on writing about Guantanamo Bay". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2013-08-20. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fchildrens-books-site%2F2013%2Faug%2F20%2Famnesty-teen-takeover-anna-perera-guantanamo&date=2013-08-20. Retrieved 2013-08-20. "I wanted to annihilate the myth that torture can ever be justified and expose the fear and paranoia that have led to men and boys being abducted and harmed, stripped of their dignity, denied the chance to defend themselves in a court of law and held indefinitely, often in solitary confinement, while governments spread the propaganda that these methods keep us safe and secure. They are lies."
