Uncovering the hidden truth in the documentary play : Guantanamo : honor bound to defend freedom

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Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom (2004) is a documentary play written by journalist Victoria Brittain and novelist Gillian Slovo.

It is compiled mostly from interviews from Guantanamo Bay prisoners and testimony from their lawyers and embittered families back in the UK.

The interviews are supplemented by correspondences from detainees, news conferences and lecture material.

The play contrives personal stories, legal opinion, and political debate.

It firmly indicts the unlawful policies of the “war on terror” in particular the US government’s practice of turning the detention centre in Cuba into a no-man’s land for law and holding the detainees indefinitely.

The explicitly political play critiques the decisions taken by Bush’s administration and discloses the persistent effort to hide, distort, and disguise the truth.