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Taxi to the Dark Side: screening at Frontline Club, discussion with Andy Worthington and Moazzam Begg

1.6.08

On Monday June 9, the Frontline Club, the excellent journalists’ club in west London, is screening Taxi to the Dark Side, Alex Gibney’s Academy Award-winning documentary about the “War on Terror,” which tackles the post-9/11 flight from domestic and international law — and the endorsement of torture as official policy from Guantánamo to Abu Ghraib […]

London Guantánamo Campaign: report on sixth anniversary actions

25.1.08

The following report –- on actions across London by the London Guantánamo Campaign and Cageprisoners to mark the sixth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo as a lawless “War on Terror” prison –- was published on the website of the National Guantánamo Coalition. I reproduce it here because it covers, in detail, the range of […]

Gordon Brown urged to act for British residents in Guantánamo

15.1.08

On Friday morning, on the sixth anniversary of the opening of the US administration’s lawless prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a group of human rights campaigners presented a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street, requesting him to act on behalf of Binyam Mohamed and Ahmed Belbacha, the two remaining British residents […]

Audio: Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington talk about Guantánamo

11.12.07

Thanks to Chris at Sheffield Indymedia, the talks at the Stop Islamophobia Society’s meeting at Sheffield University last night, by released Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg, and by Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, are available as MP3s on the Indymedia website. The meeting, to […]

The Guantánamo Files: photos from the book launch, Wednesday 28 November

5.12.07

These photos of the official launch of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison at Bookmarks in central London were taken by photographer Richard Keith Wolff, who took a great interest in the event. Contact him at: or.wolff@virgin.net Thanks to everyone who turned up to make it such a […]

Shaker Aamer, A South London Man in Guantánamo: The Children Speak

11.7.07

On Saturday 30 June 2007, to mark 2,000 days since the establishment of the illegal prison in Guantánamo Bay, the British human rights group Cageprisoners held a conference in Balham, specifically to discuss the case of Shaker Aamer, but also to press for the release of other British residents in Guantánamo, and to call for […]

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