Moazzam Begg Talk/Film 'Gitmo: The New Rules of War'

Monday 14th January 2008 8pm at the Cube Cinema, Stokes Croft, Bristol
Entry £3/£4 (but nobody refused entry for a lack of funds.)

Bristol Indymedia is pleased to host a talk by Moazzam Begg. In February 2002, the British-born Moazzam Begg was seized by the CIA in Islamabad. No reasons were given for his arrest. He was hooded, shackled and cuffed and flown to the U.S. detention facility at Kandahar, then to Bagram airbase where he was held for approximately a year before being transferred to Guantanamo. The U.S. government labelled him an "enemy combatant." He was never charged with a crime. In all, Moazzam spent three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement. He was subjected to over three hundred interrogations as well as death threats and torture. In January 2005, he was released from Guantanamo along with three other British citizens. He received no apology or compensation for his imprisonment. Since his
release in 2005 he has written the acclaimed book 'Enemy Combatant: A
British Muslim's Journey To Guantanamo and Back' and campaigns for justice for other people held in Guantanamo.

Following the talk we will be screening the award winning documentary
'Gitmo: The new Rules of War', winner of the 'Best Documentary' award at the Seattle Film Festival and recipient of a 'Special Jury Mention' at the Miami Film Festival and the musical score won first prize for music in at the Festival International Musique et Cinéma in France. The film looks at the detention facility and talk to various people involved.

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