Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo

Over the weekend, Polly Nash and I, co-directors of the new Guantánamo documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” travelled to Oslo, where our film had been chosen as part of the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film Festival. Organized by Oslo Dokumentarkino and the Human Rights House Network of human rights organizations, the festival, […]

Throughout 2010, former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes and Andy Worthington, journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files, will be touring the UK, showing the new Guantánamo documentary “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” and attending post-screening Q&A sessions. On some dates, Omar, who is now the legal director of the Guantánamo Justice Centre, and Andy, […]

On Saturday February 27, 2010, at 2 pm, the BFI (the British Film Institute) is screening the new Guantánamo documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” in NFT2 (the National Film Theatre). Tickets are £5 and can be booked here. A map and directions are here. The screening will be followed by a Q&A […]

On Tuesday February 16, 2010, at 6.30 pm, Amnesty International UK is screening the new Guantánamo documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” at the Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA (map and directions here). This is a free event, but those who want to attend need to book […]

On Saturday February 6, 2010, Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, the directors of the new Guantánamo documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” will attend a screening of the film at the Human Rights, Human Wrongs Film Festival, at the Parkteatret, Oslo, and will take part in a Q&A session afterwards. This is the second […]

On Tuesday January 12, at 7.30pm, at the Friends Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, SACC (Scotland Against Criminalising Communities) presents an open meeting and screening of the new documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) to mark the 8th anniversary of the opening of the “War […]

On Monday January 11 — the eighth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo — the campaigning group Witness Against Torture, with the support of numerous other organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, After Downing Street, No More Guantánamos and The World Can’t Wait, will hold a 12-day fast and vigil outside the White House […]

On Tuesday, I was delighted to talk once more with Brad Friedman, muckraking citizen journalist and host of The Brad Blog, standing in for Mike Malloy on the progressive talk show out of Dallas, Texas. This was a 2 am start for me, but it’s always a pleasure to talk to Brad, and I’m happy […]

On October 21, at the launch of the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) at the Cochrane Theatre in London, Spectacle, the production company, filmed the Q&A session following the screening, in which Moazzam Begg, Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash took questions from […]

Recently, Amelia King, an independent journalist and community activist based in Brighton, asked me for an interview by phone. Amelia recently created her own website and is beginning to publish online as a way of exploring her interest in human rights issues and sharing ideas through interviews and research, and the following interview was originally […]