Photos of detainee Abdelaziz Al Swidi and his sister's newborn baby girl. (Through The Walls)
New York, NY –
In the three years since the U.S. has been holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the public has heard few details about the prisoners. But since civilian attorneys won the right to visit the men, more information has been surfacing.
WNYC's Marianne McCune gave a recorder and mic to two New York attorneys with the law firm Allen and Overy - to take listeners along as they represent 11 Yemeni detainees. Yesterday, they took us as close as they could to the prison itself. Today, they take the recorder to Yemen to meet the families of their clients.
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Marianne McCune is a staff reporter for New York Public Radio (WNYC 93.9FM/AM820) and contributes regularly to National Public Radio and Public Radio International. She thinks of the New York Metropolitan Area as the center of the world because that's how she covers it: more than a third of New York residents were born in another country and Marianne reports on the resulting cultural, economic, and political links between New York/New Jersey and almost everywhere else on earth.
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