The Guantanamo Files – interviews

Sri Lanka Guardian: To introduce you, if anyone asks you, who is Andy Worthington, from which country is he, and what is his role and status, what would you say? Andy Worthington: I’m a historian and journalist from the UK, living in London, and the author of three books. My latest, The Guantánamo Files: The [...]

The following interview, conducted by email with Ismail Salami, Press TV’s website manager, was published on the Press TV website. Press TV: Could you please explain about the structure at Guantánamo? Andy Worthington: The prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba is on land occupied by a US naval base. It was first occupied by the United [...]

They say journalists provide the first draft of history. With the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, that draft led to an almost universal consensus, at least among Americans, that the attack was a justifiable act of self-defense. The Afghanistan action is commonly viewed as a “clean” conflict as well — a war prosecuted with minimal loss [...]

The following interview, with Slovenian journalist Kristina Božič, took place in London in August 2007. An article based on the interview appeared in the Slovenian newspaper Dnevnik on 22 September 2007. This is an edited version of the full interview, as transcribed by Kristina and edited by Andy. Andy Worthington says he has spent most [...]

Published in August, Poems From Guantánamo contains 22 poems, by 17 Guantánamo detainees –- many of whom are still held without charge or trial after five and half years –- which were cleared for publication only after passing through a strict censorship process established by the Pentagon. In telephone interviews conducted on 7 and 10 [...]

Andy Worthington is a London-based historian, who has written three books on civil rights issues, including, most recently, The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, scheduled for release in October, which is the most detailed and specific account to date of the capture and provenance of the over 700 [...]