Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
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Joshua Colangelo-Bryan is a trial attorney and an associate with Dorsey & Whitney LLP in New York.
He received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1992 and his J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington in 1999.
In 2005, Colangelo-Bryan represented some of the Bahrainis held at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. When Colangelo-Bryan visited his clients that July, he learned that some of them had participated in the summer's first major hunger strike, and that one of them, Essa Al Murbati, was so frail he could not sit up.
Colangelo-Bryan's commented on the Guantanamo captives' suicidal impulses following the first three deaths described as suicide.[1]
"These men have been told they will be held at Guantánamo forever. They've been told that while they're held there they do not have a single right."
His client Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif Al Dossary had made over a dozen suicide attempts, including one attempt when he asked Colangelo-Bryan to leave the room while he made a toilet break.[2][3][4][5]
[edit] References
- ^ James Risen, Tim Golden. "3 Prisoners Commit Suicide at Guantánamo", New York Times, June 11, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-01-19.
- ^ Kanwal Hameed. "Sex torture claim by Bay prisoner", Gulf Daily News, October 20, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
- ^ Josh White. "Guantanamo Desperation Seen in Suicide Attempts: One Incident Was During Lawyer's Visit", Washington Post, November 1, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
- ^ Kanwal Hameed. "Move to protect Bay detainee", Gulf Daily News, November 8, 2005. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
- ^ Jane Sutton. "Dozens have attempted suicide at Guantanamo", The Scotsman, June 11, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
[edit] External links
- Colangelo-Bryan, Joshua, Discrimination Down Under: Lessons From the Australian Experience in Prohibiting Employment Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation 7 Pacific Rim L. & Pol. J. 377 (March 1980
- New push to free Bay Six, Gulf Daily News, September 28, 2005
- An interview with Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, cageprisoners, October 19, 2005
- Stacy Sullivan. "The Minutes of the Guantánamo Bay Bar Association", New York Magazine, 2006. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
- The Talking Dog Blog Interview with Joshua Colangelo Bryan. Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (January 25, 2006). Retrieved on July 16, 2007.