Thom Dyke writes for the LRB about Guantánamo and international law

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27/03/2025

Following his visit to Guantánamo Bay last year, Thom Dyke has a piece published in the current issue of the London Review of Books about the trial proceedings against the 9/11 detainees, as both sides gear up for an inevitable showdown in the US Supreme Court over the proposed plea deal. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/thom-dyke/short-cuts

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