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by Gareth Peirce

Author: Gareth Peirce
Publisher: Verso (January 1, 2011)
Language: English
Pages: 112
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Category: Political
Subcategory: Politics and Government
The two state prosecutors from the US Department of Justice were seated next to the prosecution team.
The two state prosecutors from the US Department of Justice were seated next to the prosecution team.
Its devices for maintaining secrecy are probably more deep-rooted than those of any other comparable democracy. If the government continues along this path, Peirce argues, it will destroy the moral and legal fabric it claims to be protecting.
Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legal principles and practices in both the US and the UK that has accompanied the ‘War on Terror’
Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legal principles and practices in both the US and the UK that has accompanied the ‘War on Terror’. Exploring the few cases of torture that have come to light, such as those of Guantánamo detainees Shafiq Rasul and Binyam Mohamed, Peirce argues that they are evidence of a deeply entrenched culture of impunity among those investigating presumed radicals among British Muslim nationals and residents, who constitute the new suspect community in the UK.
Civil liberties defence lawyer Gareth Peirce has undertaken some of modern Britain’s most high profile cases, representing many wrongfully detained individuals (largely with Irish and Muslim backgrounds) subject to rendition and torture. Her clients include the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, Moazzam Begg, a detainee of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and Shakar Aamer, the last British citizen to be held in Guantanamo
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Dispatches from the Dark Side: On Torture and the Death of Justice. ISBN 978-1-844-67619-4. Retrieved 6 August 2014. Vanity Fair article on Mouloud Sihali (February 2008, No. 570). A Law unto Themselves", BBC Radio 4, Peirce interview with Baroness Kennedy, 4 August 2014.
Peirce shows that the British government has colluded in a whole range of extrajudicial .
Dispatches from the Dark Side. On Torture and the Death of Justice. Its devices for maintaining secrecy are probably more deep-rooted than those of any other comparable democracy.
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