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Guide

TRUE ACCOUNTS FROM THE

WORLDS MOST INFAMOUS PRISON

EDITED BY SARAH MIRK

INTRODUCTION BY OMAR EL AKKAD

ILLUSTRATED BY GERARDO ALBA, KASIA BABIS, ALEX

BEGUEZ, TRACY CHAHWAN, NOMI KANE, OMAR KHOURI,

KANE LYNCH, MAKI NARO, HAZEL NEWLEVANT, JEREMY

NGUYEN, CHELSEA SAUNDERS, ABU ZUBAYDAH

ABRAMS COMICARTS

NEW YORK

Editor: Charlotte Greenbaum

Designer: Megan Kelchner

Managing Editor: Annalea Manalili

Production Manager: Alison Gervais

Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for and may be

obtained from the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-1-4197-4690-1

eISBN 978-1-64700-120-9

Text and compilation copyright 2020 Sarah Mirk

Photographs on pages copyright 2020 Sarah Mirk

Chapter Seven, pages 29: Text copyright 2020 Mansoor Adayfi.

Illustrations 2020 Kane Lynch. Originally published in the Nib .

Illustrations by: Nomi Kane (78);

Gerardo Alba (85); Maki

Naro (29); Tracy

Chahwan (67);

Abu Zubaydah (81)

Copyright for the drawings on pages 181 belong to Abu

Zubaydah ISN 10016, 2019. Original publisher: Denbeaux, Mark

and Haire, Stephanie Moreno and Laing, Tatiana and Guldner,

Kristofer and Pope-Ragoonanan, Denera and Casner, Adam and

Lewbel, Brett and Paulson, Timothy and Profeta, Timothy and

Sobh, Jade and Waters, Niki and Zahriyeh, Bayan, How America

Tortures (November 27, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn

.com/abstract=3494533 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3494533.

Published in 2020 by Abrams ComicArts

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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO TWO VETERANS:

CHRIS ARENDT, WHO STARTED ME ON THIS

JOURNEY, AND LAURA SANDOW, WHO KEPT ME

ON IT. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THE COURAGE

TO FACE THE DARK STUFF.

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UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION,

SIXTH AMENDMENT

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a

speedy and public trial... to be informed of the nature and cause of

the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to

have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and

to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

GENEVA CONVENTIONS, ARTICLE 103

A prisoner of war shall not be confined while awaiting trial unless

a member of the armed forces of the Detaining Power would be so

confined if he were accused of a similar offence, or if it is essential

to do so in the interests of national security. In no circumstances

shall this confinement exceed three months.

Contents

Nomi Kane

Nomi Kane

Nomi Kane

Hazel Newlevant

gerardo alba

alex beguez

Omar khouri

maki naro

jeremy nguyen

kane lynch

tracy chahwan

kasia babis

chelsea saunders

hazel newlevant

A Note on Language

IS GUANTNAMO A PRISON?

The language we use to describe our world shapes our perception and

understanding. And the language used to describe Guantnamo is hotly

contested. The U.S. government describes the facility as a detention camp

or a detention facility and the inhabitants as detainees. Human rights

advocates often call Guantnamo a concentration camp. Journalists make

all kinds of choices in describing Guantnamo (GITMO), from adopting the

governments terminology to calling it an offshore prison or a prison

fortress.

My goals with my language choices in this book are to accurately

describe reality and to use words that everyone can understand. The word

detainee does not have the cultural weight of the word prisonerIve

been detained many times (by a TSA guard searching my bag, by transit

police checking my ticket, or by an overly long work meeting), but I have

never been a prisoner. I think the governments intentional choice of tepid,

bureaucratic language to describe Guantnamo downplays the years people

have spent and continue to spend in custody. In this book, I made the

choice to describe Guantnamo as a prison and the men confined there

as prisoners. I made this choice after consulting the Merriam-Webster

Dictionary definitions of prison and prisoner:

Prison: a state of confinement or captivity

Prisoner: a person deprived of liberty and kept under involuntary

restraint, confinement, or custody

IS THIS ALL REAL?

Ive worked to make this graphic narrative a nonfiction accounting of real

life. The chapters in this book are all based on original interviews I did, as well

as interviews conducted by Columbia Universitys Rule of Law project, and

journalistic books about Guantnamo. Whenever possible, the illustrations

in this book are based on photo and video references. However, because

its impossible to document what happened in every scene described in

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