Guantanamo authorities block Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’

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Authorities at Guantanamo Bay have blocked delivery of one of the most influential books written on the Soviet system of prison camps, known as ‘gulags.’

The legal team for Shaker Aamer, a British resident who has been detained in Guantanamo without charge or trial for 11 years, attempted to deliver a copy of The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn during a recent visit.

However, Mr Aamer has now told his lawyers that he never received the book.

The move by prison authorities follows reports that they banned the works of John Grisham in July this year – leading to the author penning a strong denunciation of Guantanamo which appeared in the New York Times.

Guantanamo Bay has been compared to a ‘gulag’ in the past, notably by US Senator Dick Durbin, as well as by a number of NGOs and media organisations.


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http://www.reprieve.org.uk/press/2013_08_20_Guantanamo_Shaker_Gulag_Archipelago/

[enough]

1. Full circle. (nt)

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. The book was banned in the Soviet Union

Now the Gulag Archipelago is included in the high school program in Russia as mandatory reading

[Javaman]

3. god forbid they ever read about article 58...

that would be enough for the "prisoners" to go full on riot.