UK film screening: You don't like the truth
You Don’t Like the Truth – 4 Days Inside Guantanamo is a stunning documentary based on security camera footage from an encounter in Guantanamo Bay between a team of Canadian intelligence agents and Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, then a 16-year-old detainee.
Islam Under Fire
Glipses of Islam in the media with particualr reference to anti-terror measures will be discussed as part of the Islam Awareness Week, in a lecture delivered by Moazzam Begg.
Yorkshire Young Muslim Writers presents an evening with Moazzam Begg
Dubai Eye: Good & Evil with Professor Philip Zimbardo and Moazzam Begg
Professor Philip Zimbardo and Moazzam Begg discuss their collaboration at the Boldtalks 2011 event in Dubai last Saturday where they delivered presentations to hundreds of attendees regarding the nature of good, evil, justice and forgiveness
Exclusive: Moazzam Begg interviews former Guantanamo prisoner Saber Lahmer in Paris
Saber Lahmer is one of the six 'Bosnian Arabs' who were quite literally kidnapped by US agents from outside a Sarajevo courthouse where they had just been acquitted of terrorism related charges. What followed next was a horrifying ordeal in the Kafkaesque story that is Guantanamo. After being held without charge for over eight years Saber Lahmer was eventually released and resettled in France.
Cageprisoners Director Moazzam Begg met up with him at a conference in Paris to mark the ninth anniversary since the opening of the US prison in Cuba. The following is a transcript of the interview conducted between the two.
Exclusive: Moazzam Begg interviews former Guantanamo prisoner Saber Lahmer in Paris
Saber Lahmer is one of the six 'Bosnian Arabs' who were quite literally kidnapped by US agents from outside a Sarajevo courthouse where they had just been acquitted of terrorism related charges. What followed next was a horrifying ordeal in the Kafkaesque story that is Guantanamo. After being held without charge for over eight years Saber Lahmer was eventually released and resettled in France.
Cageprisoners Director Moazzam Begg met up with him at a conference in Paris to mark the ninth anniversary since the opening of the US prison in Cuba. The following is a transcript of the interview conducted between the two.
Anwar Al-Awlaki
BOLDtalks 2011 - former Guantanamo prisoner and guard join Dr. Philip Zimbardo in Dubai
The world’s most renowned psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the man behind the controversial “Stanford Prison Experiment” to join former Gitmo guard and prisoner in Dubai discussions
Moazzam Begg: The greatest trick Obama ever pulled was convincing the world that Guantanamo will close
Another anniversary of America's illegal detention camp comes round and the president's closure order remains unfulfilled
Cageprisoners reflecting on 9 years of Guantanamo Bay
Gerry Conlon talks to Cageprisoners about the plight of Shaker Aamer
As one of the 'Guildford Four' Gerry Conlon was wrongfully imprisoned as an IRA bomber in 1974. It took 16 years before his conviction was quashed in 1989 and he was released. His case was one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in English legal history.Conlon's autobiography Proved Innocent was adapted into the Oscar and BAFTA Award-nominated 1993 film In The Name of the Father. Here he speaks to Cageprisoners' patron Yvonne Ridley about why he's fighting for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo.
Guantánamo and the Wikileaks documents, including Yemeni and Uighur "problems," and praise for Moazzam Begg
Andy Worthington on Wkileaks' revelations of diplomatic horse-trading regarding resettling former Guantanamo prisoners - and praise for Moazzam Begg.
WikiLeaks cables show US U-turn over ex-Guantánamo inmate
Washington shown lavishing praise on Moazzam Begg over his campaign for Europe take in other detainees
U.S. has warm words for ex-Guantanamo detainee
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. consular official in Luxembourg gave a former Guantanamo detainee warm praise earlier this year in a cable to Washington made public Monday by the website WikiLeaks.
Moazzam Begg: Why we settled out of court
Moazzam Begg explains what the Guantanamo settlements have meant to the former prisoners and what lies ahead
The UK government's Guantánamo guilt, and the urgent need for Shaker Aamer's return
Andy Worthington on why the financial settlement is an admission of guilt, and Shaker Aamer must be returned home now.
Guantánamo Bay detainees to be paid compensation by UK government
Newham launch of ‘Dispatches from the Dark Side’
In the past this commitment involved challenging the state over its treatment of black and Irish communities and innocent so-called 'terrorists' like the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four, people vilified during an earlier period of paranoia and suspicion.
Legal challenge to US assassination policy divides rights groups
Aafia Siddiqui: Sentenced to Death
Events
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International human rights breaches - State accountability v State immunity
A forum to discuss the issues surrounding International human rights breaches – State accountability v…
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Legal seminar: Preserving the rule of law: taking a risk
A discussion between noted human…
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Extradited to a future of torture: the reality of solitary confinement in America
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Spying and Entrapment
What's New
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The Guantánamo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Fascinating, revealing and harrowing handwritten account of detention, interrogation and abuse by prisoner still at Guantanamo
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TRAITOR: a Guantanamo guard's journey to Islam
“Traitor?” is the story of an American soldier's journey to Islam having…
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Starving for justice
Shaker Aamer, Fayiz al-Kandari, Samir Moqbel and 163 other have been starving…
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Are Muslims active enough in the fight against Guantanamo?
Tariq Ramadan speaks to Moazzam Begg about the Guantanamo hunger strikers and…
Blog
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Help Lynne Stewart, civil rights lawyer for Muslim defendants, stay alive
Lynne Stewart is a prominent civil rights lawyer who’s now facing the prospect of death on the inside.
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How your Schedule 7 swab could help get your family arrested
Have you ever been swabbed under Schedule 7 or in any criminal…
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Why haven't you signed the Shaker Aamer petition?
What do you see when you read the name? I often…



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