Prisoner-turned-activist discusses how he feels that the now 20-year-old US military jail was slated for closure but never did While publicly demonstrating intentions to shut down the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Republican and Democratic US presidents alike kept the notorious prison running for two decades, Moazzam Begg told RT. Begg is one of hundreds […]
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20 years of Gitmo an affront to ‘all humanity,’ never-charged ex-prisoner tells RT
Yemeni man who was thrown into notorious US prison in his late teens and spent over 14 years there pleads for its belated shutdown The abuses and injustices committed at Guantanamo Bay military prison hurt not only people locked up there, but the world in general, former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi believes. He spoke to RT […]
‘US misled me into joining Mujahideen, then tortured me for Al-Qaeda past’: Gitmo survivor says US ‘acted like fascists’ post-9/11
A former Islamist fighter who went to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets and later got caught up in the US War on Terror – spending 14 years in the Guantanamo prison as a result – spoke to RT as part of the Unheard Voices project. In the early 1990s, Mohamedou Ould Slahi had a romantic […]



