Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013

The U.S. government does not allow photographs of the military trials at Guantanamo, but in 2006, Janet Hamlin went to Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist — the only one covering these trials — and this book collects her most potent and revealing sketches, as well as chronicles her experiences there.

Camp X-Ray in the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, opened in January, 2002 in the wake of the 9-11 attacks to house alleged terrorists — off the American mainland, unaccountable to th...