Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo

After two screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary film I co-directed wth Polly Nash — at UCL onThursday evening, and at Roehampton University on Friday — it was more than I could do to get down to Nine Elms for 12 noon on Saturday and the start of “A Day for […]

I have been mentioning Saturday’s event, “A Day for Shaker Aamer,” for many weeks, in articles promoting screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary I co-directed with Polly Nash, which is being shown on Saturday (Click on the image to enlarge the poster). However, with just four days to go I thought […]

“‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “This is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American conspiracy.” Joe Burnham, Time Out As featured on Democracy […]

North Wales has always figured in my life, probably because its seaside resorts (along with Blackpool and Southport) and its mountains (along with the Peak District) were important to those who, like my family, grew up in and around Manchester as working class Methodists. For the working people of Lancashire, holidays in Llandudno, Colwyn Bay […]

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 […]

“‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “This is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American conspiracy.” Joe Burnham, Time Out As featured on Democracy […]

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 […]

Getting up at the crack of dawn to visit a high school to discuss Guantánamo could hardly have been a less appealing idea after the exhausting events of the day before — four radio interviews, and a forum on torture — and the cumulative effects of five days of speaking and campaigning as part of […]

Congratulations to the Malvern Hills Amnesty International Group for demonstrating, on Tuesday evening, that compassion and empathy are not dead. Less than 24 hours before the coalition government announced its spending review, which demonstrated a notable absence of compassion and empathy for the poor and the disadvantaged, several hundred people turned up at Malvern Theatres […]

Just keeping up with everything going on in “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week is hard enough, and this is in spite of the fact that my patrons at the World Can’t Wait have lined me up for as many of these events as possible on my week-long visit from London. The full schedule is […]