David Remes

  • David Remes is an American lawyer who represents 15 Yemeni detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. In a news conference he held in Yemen, Remes dropped his pants in an attempt to dramatize the degree of humiliation experienced by Muslim men at the military prison at Guantanamo. WSJ.com: Covington Partner Demonstrates Treatment of Detainees(July 18, 2008)
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    • Why he dropped his pants at a press conference in Yemen:
    • "...When the military punishes Muslim men by shaving off their beard, or by forcing them to disrobe — for a Muslim man that is a thousand times more cutting than a Westerner can imagine. And that’s what I was trying to dramatize."—David RemesWSJ.com: Covington Partner Demonstrates Treatment of Detainees (July 18, 2008)

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