PROGRAM
The Fritt Ord Foundation and Borgen Production AS present:
GUANTANAMO – AND AFTER
Date: Thursday October 6th 2011,
Time: 1000 – 1230
Venue: Saga Kino (Saga Cinema), Oslo – Norway.
”I've spent my whole life representing people on death row in America. And Guantanamo, as a prison, is worse than any death row in the United States.”
Clive Stafford Smith, lawyer and president of Reprieve, London
Words of welcome: Moderator Terje Svabø
Speech by Moazzam Begg, Director Cageprisoners, London., a human rights organization that raises ”awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror”.
Topic: The main problems for the Guantanamo detainees and their families
Moazzam Begg (born 1968) from Birmingham, UK, stayed three years in captivity at American detention facilities in Afghanistan and Guantanamo. He spent almost 20 months in solitary confinement at Guantanamo. He was released in 2005. Begg has written a book about his Guantanamo-experience. “Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back”
Testimonies and panel-discussion:
Participants:
Sami al- Hajj, (born 1969) from Sudan. He lives in Qatar. He was the only journalist at Guantanamo. He worked as a cameraman for Al Jazeera when he was arrested and brought to Guantanamo. He was held there for more than six years. Today he is in charge of Al Jazeeras human rights office. He participated in many of the hunger strikes at Guantanamo.
Walid Muhammad Hajj, (born 1974) from Sudan He served six years and seven months at Guantanamo. He lives in Khartoum. He has written a book about his experiences at Guantanamo and how he survived the infamous Qala-i-jangi massacre. Walid's extensive interviews were widely televised on Al-Jazeera.
Omar Deghayes. (born 1969) from Libya. He lives in London. He stayed five years at Guantanamo and experienced severe torture and mistreatment. He is a member of Cageprisoners.
The legal issues:
Speech by Talal al-Zahrani, a former colonel in the Saudi- Arabian police. His son, Yasser, died inside Guantanamo in 2006.
Mark Denbaux is director of the Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy and Research in New Jersey, which is best known for its dissemination of the internationally recognized series of reports on the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp. Professor Denbeaux's interest in the conditions of detainment arose from his representation of two detainees there. Among his reports is “Death in Camp Delta”
Michael Ratner, representing CCR, which is one of the most important human rights organizations in USA. CCR has led the legal battle over Guantánamo for over eight years – sending the first ever habeas attorney to the base. On June 12, 2008, CCR helped win a historic Supreme Court victory in Boumediene vs. Bush, securing the right for the men at Guantánamo and other non-citizens to challenge the legality of their detention through habeas proceedings in federal courts. Ratner has written several books. Among these: ”Guantanamo, what the world should know”.
The European accountability.
Panel-discussion:
Irmina Pacho, lawyer, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Coordinator of the project “Observatory of CIA Activities in Poland.”
John Peder Egenæs, General Secretary, Amnesty International Norway. AI Norway has for years been focusing on the rights of the Guantanamo- prisoners and the Norwegian accountability.
Representative Norwegian Government (not yet confirmed)
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Source: Fritt Foundation
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