2 June 2008
From Amnesty International Belgium
30 May 2008
Waiting for the guards - ‘Stress Position’
Amnesty International launched the ‘Unsubscribe’ campaign in November 2007 with this truly powerful film entitled Waiting for the Guards. This film shows a performance artist undergoing, for real, interrogation techniques permitted in the CIA handbook.
22 April 2008
The Stuff of Life - ‘Waterboarding’
‘The Stuff of Life’ exposes the reality of the ‘waterboarding’ torture technique. The CIA uses waterboarding to try to extract information from detainees in the ‘war on terror’. President George Bush thinks it is a ‘necessary tool’. We think it’s torture.
11 January 2008
Protesters mark six years of Guantanamo - 11 January 2008
Al Jazeera media coverage of a day of protests from Asia to Europe calling for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, six years to the day of the first transfer of detainees to Guantánamo.
In London, former detainees campaigned outside the British prime minister’s home as Richard Bestic reports.
15 December 2007
Poems from Guantanamo: Muslim Dost
Andrew Motion, poet laureate, discusses the work of Abdur Rahim Muslim Dost. Muslim Dost, an Afghan national, was released from Guantánamo in 2005, and returned to Pakistan.
27 May 2007
Awake - Amnesty International
Directed by Adam Hashemi for Amnesty International
