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Items by Mansoor Adayfi
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From Guantanamo to UK prisons: In solidarity with the hunger strikers
I know this road. I have its map etched into my bones. I carry scars that won’t heal without justice, without accountability. I learned it in Guantánamo, when the only thing left that I could control was my own body. We were disappeared. Isolated. Turned into silence. Our words were…
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Guantanamo prisoners and the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
Despite the fact that the US routinely and openly violates the human rights of its own citizens as well as communities across the globe, Washington rarely has any qualms about condemning the violations committed by other countries. Such condemnations are almost always hypocritical, and often do more to shine light…
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In search of Saeed: From Guantanamo to an Algerian prison
Saeed Bakhouche – who I know as my brother ‘Saeed’, or prisoner 685 – was the last of 26 Algerians in Guantanamo. Those of us freed before him were very pleased when we heard that he was finally repatriated on 20 April to his home country, as an innocent man.…
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I was a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, but who is its biggest captive?
It was 21 years ago this month that I was flown in the belly of a US cargo plane, hooded, blindfolded, gagged and chained in an orange jumpsuit, for over 40 hours. I didn’t know where I was being taken, or why. My journey into the unknown started when I…
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‘It’s time the US released pictures of Guantanamo’s children, the waterboarding, the blood-stained walls of cells where prisoners were killed’
Over the last 20 years, Guantanamo has represented many different things to the world. It is not only the site of one of the most infamous prisons in the ‘War on Terror’ but joins the ranks of Alcatraz and Robben Island as one of the most notorious in history. Outside…
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Yemeni former Guantanamo detainee disappears day after release
After 20 years of torture and indefinite and arbitrary detention, former Guantanamo detainee Abdulqadir Al-Madhfari was transferred to Yemen from his cell in a United Arab Emirates (UAE) prison. Despite being cleared of all charges, his freedom did not even last for a day. This article is in his honour.…