Writers speak in San Francisco
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Human Rights activistas protest and ask at UC Hastings College of the Law on Jan. 13, the closure of Guantánamo prison.
As Guantánamo prisoners begin a hunger strike, a British journalists and filmmaker Andy Worthington visited the San Francisco Bay Area as part of a national speaking tour in a campaign to close the notorious U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He was joined in conversation on stage by the renowned investigative journalist Jason Leopold (truthout.org).
Worthington and Leopold spoke about the current status of Guantánamo, legal issues and controversy over indefinite military detention (including in light of the new National Defense Authorization Act), and current U.S. policies on torture and rendition. To this date, prisoners still held at Guantánamo marked the 10th anniversary of the prison’s opening, by announcing their plans for peaceful protest, and the beginning of a 3-day hunger strike.
Andy Worthington’s path-breaking work continues to bare the truth about Guantánamo and the hundreds held there illegally without charge or trial, and tortured.
Both his book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison and his film Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo are highly acclaimed by legal and civil liberties experts.
In 2011, after working with WikiLeaks on the release of classified military documents relating to the Guantánamo prisoners, Worthington began a new project, The Complete Guantánamo Files, a million-word series that will continue throughout 2012.
Jason Leopold has also written extensively on the role of torture in the U.S. “War on Terror” strategy, and has broken a number of related stories on the actual practice of torture and the illegal decisions made and carried out during the Bush-Cheney regime.
