http://www.andyworthington.co.uk Author & journalist Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:33:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and I have just returned from a successful two-day trip showing the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) in Bradford and Norwich, as part of an ongoing UK tour. As with recent screenings -- at Amnesty International's ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/12/outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo-report-on-screenings-in-bradford-and-norwich/ Last Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review a case brought on behalf of seven men in Guantánamo whose release into the United States was ordered by a US judge 17 months ago. The men in question are Uighurs, Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province, and the ruling ordering them to ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/10/guantanamo-uighurs-back-in-legal-limbo/ The following interview, with the London Bangla free newspaper, was conducted by email and published in two parts, in the most recent issues of the newspaper, which has a print run of 30,000 copies. I’d like to thank Emdad Rahman for coming up with a great set of questions that ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/09/london-bangla-interview-with-andy-worthington-author-of-the-guantanamo-files/ I’m delighted to report that three screenings of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself), which is currently on a UK tour, have been arranged by pioneering grass-roots activists in the US. All the screenings are free, and Polly and I, ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/08/three-us-screenings-of-outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo/ On Friday, there was another successful screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the new documentary film, co-directed by Polly Nash and myself, which was chosen as the closing film in Oxford Brookes University’s 8th Human Rights Film Festival (also see here). The screening was part of an ongoing ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/07/outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo-a-day-out-in-oxford/ Throughout 2010, former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and I are touring the UK, showing the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself). The film focuses on the stories of three British residents -- Shaker Aamer, Binyam Mohamed and Omar -- and throughout ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/07/send-a-letter-to-david-miliband-calling-for-the-return-from-guantanamo-of-shaker-aamer/ On Friday, prior to a screening at Oxford Brookes University of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself), Polly and I met up with my old friend, the photographer Adrian Arbib, at the Art Jericho gallery, where his exhibition “Homeland” is ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/06/new-photo-book-on-the-1994-solsbury-hill-road-protest/ Over on Crooks and Liars, Nicole Belle located a recent interview I did with George Galloway on his TalkSPORT radio show, which I hadn’t realized was online. The nine-minute interview, recorded in a slightly Alan Partridgesque manner while I was sitting in the breakfast room of a Premier Inn in ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/06/andy-worthington-on-crooks-and-liars-and-talking-torture-with-george-galloway/ Last Wednesday, when the Spanish government announced that the first of up to five cleared Guantánamo prisoners to be offered new homes in Spain had arrived in the country (and three other men were given new homes in Albania), I noted that, although the Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/04/who-is-the-palestinian-released-from-guantanamo-in-spain/ Please support my work! On Monday, I put out an appeal for financial support for my ongoing quest to expose the dark truths about Guantánamo and the “War on Terror,” which, for the last four years, has involved a concerted and consistent effort to fight back against ... http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/03/fundraising-week-update-please-support-my-work-on-guantanamo-and-torture/