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Ten NGOs Withdraw from UK Torture Inquiry, Citing Lack of Credibility and...
As I reported last month, ten NGOs, including Amnesty International, Liberty and Reprieve, announced their intention to boycott the government’s proposed inquiry into UK complicity in torture following...
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Britain’s Secret Post-9/11 Torture Policy Revealed: Was Tony Blair’s...
As the British government’s toothless torture inquiry is abandoned by ten NGOs and lawyers for the former Guantánamo prisoners, who have long recognized that it was nothing more than a whitewash, but...
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On Guantánamo’s 10th Anniversary, British Ex-Prisoners Talk About Their...
With the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo fast approaching (on January 11), I was delighted that, on Sunday, the Observer not only ran a double-page feature about the British ex-prisoners...
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Moazzam Begg, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash Attend Screening of “Outside...
On Tuesday January 24, at 7 pm, there will be a special screening of the acclaimed documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) at the...
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10 Years in Guantánamo: British Resident Shaker Aamer, Cleared for Release...
Originally posted on the “Close Guantánamo” website, and written by Andy Worthington. Ten years ago, on February 14, 2002, Shaker Aamer, a British resident, and originally one of 16 British prisoners...
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Video: “Songs of War,” an Al-Jazeera Film About Music Torture in Guantánamo,...
In a new film for Al-Jazeera, “Songs of War: Music as a Weapon,” the filmmaker Tristan Chytroschek follows “Sesame Street” composer Christopher Cerf on a journey to discover how his music came to be...
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UK Human Rights Groups Dismiss Rendition and Torture Inquiry as a Whitewash
Nine human rights groups in the UK are boycotting the official British inquiry into the treatment of “detainees” in the “war on terror” and the UK’s involvement in rendition, “grievously undermining...
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Torture Victim Abu Zubaydah, Seen For the First Time in 14 Years, Seeks...
On August 23, 2016, the most notorious torture victim in Guantánamo, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, better known as Abu Zubaydah, became the 61st prisoner to face a Periodic Review Board, and was seen...
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Parliament and the People: Two Days of London Events About Guantánamo,...
Please support my work! I’m currently trying to raise $2500 (£2000) to support my writing and campaigning on Guantánamo until the end of the year. So last week was an interesting week for events...
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North Carolina Citizens’ Group Launches Investigation of CIA’s Bush-Era...
Please support my work! I’m currently trying to raise $2500 (£2000) to support my writing and campaigning on Guantánamo and related issues over the next three months of the Trump administration. Last...
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Reprieve and MPs Dan Jarvis and David Davis Challenge Government’s Refusal to...
Protestor – and US veteran – Bob Meddaugh with a powerful universal message at a protest vigil in Des Moines, Iowa, in December 2010 (Photo: Justin Norman). Please support my work as a reader-funded...
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Standing the Test of Time: “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”
The poster for the documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”, directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, which recently marked the tenth anniversary of its release. Please support...
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In Historic Ruling, Case of Four Survivors of CIA Rendition and “Black Site”...
Four of the men subjected to rendition and torture in the “war on terror’ that the United States declared after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. From L to R: British residents Binyam...
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