Starea de excepție și drepturile omului: deținuții din Guantanamo Bay
State of Emergency and Human Rights: Detainees at Guantanamo Bay
Author(s): Narcis CalotescuSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Governance, Public Administration
Published by: Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului
Keywords: human rights; unlawful combatants; state of exception; Guantanamo Bay; War on Terror;
Summary/Abstract: After the 9/11 attacks, the United States led the War on Terror in order to strengthen counter-terrorism measures. The main objective of this article is to highlight the treatment of the war prisoners, or unlawful combatants – defined by Donald Rumsfeld, the head of the United States Secretary of Defence at that time – while they were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. The Bush Administration managed to use the enhanced interrogation techniques on the so-called unlawful combatants, in order to obtain information, claiming that those prisoners were not protected by the Geneva Convention.
Journal: Drepturile omului
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 61-75
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Romanian