Guantanamo Diaries

An unprecedented event in the world of publishing on a global scale: for the first time, a prisoner is writing his diaries while still in detention in Guantanamo. Since 2002 until this moment, Mamadou ولد صلاحى has been spending his days as a prisoner in the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Throughout these years, the United States has not charged him with any kind of accusations. A judge from the federal court issued a decision to release him in March 2010, but the US government opposed that decision, and there are currently no signs on the horizon indicating that the United States intends to release him. In the third year of his captivity, Salah began writing his diaries, describing his life before leaving his home on November 28, 2001, his disappearance into an American prison, then his "endless journey around the world" involving prisons and investigations, and finally his daily life as a prisoner in Guantanamo. His diaries are not just a living record of justice failure, but also terrible personal memories characterized by depth, black humor, and surprising kindness. Guantanamo diaries, translated into more than 23 languages, is an extremely important historical document, as well as a captivating literary text.