By Debra Sweet
We are very happy to announce that readers of UK-based writer Andy Worthington’s definitive anti-torture research and reporting can now order copies of the film directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington: Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo directly through World Can’t Wait.
As featured on Democracy Now!, ABC News and Truthout.
With Guantánamo not closing anytime soon — if ever — it is more important than ever that people who care about the crimes and injustices committed in their names have the opportunity to discover the truth, and “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” provides the perfect opportunity to discover the truth about Guantánamo, telling the story of the prison, and of the prisoners Shaker Aamer (still held), and Binyam Mohamed and Omar Deghayes (both released), through the testimony of former prisoners, lawyers Tom Wilner and Clive Stafford Smith, and Guantánamo expert Andy Worthington.
The film provides a powerful rebuke to those who believe that Guantánamo holds “the worst of the worst” and that the Bush administration was justified in responding to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 by holding men neither as prisoners of war, protected by the Geneva Conventions, nor as criminal suspects with habeas corpus rights, but as “illegal enemy combatants” with no rights whatsoever.
“The film was fantastic! It has the unique ability of humanizing those who were detained at Guantánamo like no other I have seen.”
Sari Gelzer, Truthout
Order copies ($10 postage included) and bring this information to American audiences. This film is available in the US through World Can’t Wait.