Detainees

People tortured at secret CIA bases and imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay must at all times be referred to as ‘detainees’. I may be detained by traffic on my way to the airport; being locked up without trial for a decade seems a bit more serious. But to call them ‘prisoners’ would concede that they are subject to international law governing the treatment of prisoners of war.

Report on paintings made by ‘detainees’ at Guanánamo

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