The Guantanamo Files – events

On Saturday December 4, I’ll be following up on my recent appearance at the Amnesty International Student Conference with a presentation entitled, “Nine Years of Guantánamo: What Now?” at “The Rights Time,” an Amnesty International regional conference, taking place at the Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London, EC2A 3EA, from 10 am [...]

On Saturday, I was privileged to be a speaker at the Amnesty International Student Conference 2010, at the Human Rights Action Centre in London, where I spoke about Guantánamo — and, specifically, about the plight of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, who is still held, despite being cleared for release in [...]

On Saturday November 13, at 9.30 am, I’ll be at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre in London for a panel discussion, “Unlawful detention — Guantánamo and beyond,” as part of the AIUK Student Conference 2010, which runs from November 12 to 14. Details of all three days’ events can be found here, although it [...]

On Wednesday evening, an enormous throng of students filled the Red Roaster Coffee Shop in Brighton for a discussion about the future of the media, arranged by The Badger, the University of the Sussex Student Union’s magazine. The official title of the event — which featured myself, investigative journalist Nick Davies, Dr. An Nguyen, Senior [...]

Debate: Is print media dying a slow death? If so, what is the future of respectable journalism? With Nick Davies, Andy Worthington, Dr. An Nguyen and Paula O’Shea Where: Red Roaster Coffee Shop, 1d St. James’s Street, Brighton, BN2 1RE When: Wednesday October 27, 2010, 7.30 pm Next Wednesday I’ll be in Brighton for a [...]

Last Wednesday, on Day Four of “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week — the largest gathering of anti-torture experts and activists since the Bush administration’s “War on Terror” began over nine years ago — one of the obstacles to attracting support for a mass movement against the crimes and human rights abuses of the Bush [...]

As part of “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week (the largest gathering of anti-torture experts and activists since the Bush administration began its “War on Terror” over nine years ago), I was delighted to join Justine Sharrock, journalist and author of Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things, at Revolution Books on Sunday evening for [...]

The weather in the Bay Area is radiant — hot, sunny, and astonishing for mid-October — and, although a ten-hour flight from London and my usual paranoia about Homeland Security could hardly be described as constituting the best recipe for a relaxing welcome to the United States, I got off the plane at Los Angeles [...]

Remember John Yoo, the smug, shameless apologist for unfettered executive power who once claimed that, if he so desired, the President of the United States could crush a child’s testicles and there was nothing that anyone could do about it? It was John Yoo, a follower of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who took a [...]

On reflection, two days before the General Election was a weird time to be travelling anywhere to show “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the new documentary film, co-directed by Polly Nash and myself, which former prisoner Omar Deghayes and I have been touring since February. This week it was as though the impetus to [...]