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Alka Pradhan is a human rights attorney who has represented Guantánamo detainees since 2013. She is currently counsel for Ammar al Baluchi in the case of United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, et al.
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Oct 8, 2025 ∙ 8 min
On Forgetting, in a Democracy
On a sunny day in June 2025, I visited the celebrated writer Hwang Sokyong at his home in Gunsan, South Korea. Years spent investigating...
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Jul 1, 2024 ∙ 20 min
Ammar and His Art: Death and Life at Guantanamo Bay
In January 2018, veteran actress Caroline Lagerfelt stepped into the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She was there to see ‘Ode to the Sea’, an exhibition of artwork by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, which at that point had been open for 16 years, with no end in sight. Lagerfelt had known about the atrocities committed at Guantanamo for some time. In fact, she had played British human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce in a play about Guantanamo 14 years earlier, and became a...
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