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West Virginia Public Broadcasting
April 25, 2018
As the United States works through what the American Medical Association describes as “the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history,” we revisit the story of Dimitri. This former junkie was delivered from a 27-year heroin addiction by a controversial treatment that seems to work miracles for peopleÃâà...
Truth-Out
April 19, 2018
And as Moazzam Begg said, correctly, the most lethal part of that intervention is by air forces. In my view, it is not just a matter of a no-fly zone. It's a matter of figuring out a way to deescalate this conflict, get these external powers out, and have a proper political process whereby this atrocious regime can beÃâà...
Asian Image
April 19, 2018
Former Guantanamo prisoner Moazzam Begg took to social media yesterday to reveal he had been asked to appear as a contestant on reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother. Moazzam was chosen by the casting team for his “interesting” perspective, because he is considered to be “passionate” and has aÃâà...
Democracy Now!
April 19, 2018
In Syria, international chemical weapons inspectors are still attempting to enter the town of Douma, where an alleged chemical gas attack killed dozens of people earlier this month. Inspectors with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived in Damascus on Saturday but have beenÃâà...
I Am Birmingham (blog)
April 18, 2018
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, who was held prisoner by the US government in an internment facility in Afghanistan and in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba for nearly three years, has been invited to appear on reality TV show Big Brother. Yes, really. However, theÃâà...
Middle East Eye
April 5, 2018
Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner and outreach director of human rights group Cage, who visited Libya in 2011, told MEE that the British government's use of and support for former members of the LIFG during the Libyan uprising was a "pretty open secret". "There is no doubt that the veryÃâà...
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
March 29, 2018
Moazzam Begg, a British citizen of Pakistani heritage, and Albert Melise, a former housing police officer in the Boston area, were unlikely to have their life stories intersect and become friends; but then September 11 happened. After the Bush Administration launched the War on Terror, Begg was detainedÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 2, 2018
Mr Emmerson - who has represented high profile clients such as the wife of Alexander Litvinenko and former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg and has already taken up the cases of three jailed Catalan separatists - said that the Spanish crackdown was a violation of international treaty obligations.
Middle East Eye
February 20, 2018
... Daily Mail published an article in January 2016 suggesting that SOAS was among universities which had given a platform to speakers from Muslim civil liberties campaign group Cage, including former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, which has campaigned widely on campuses against Prevent.
Gulf Today
February 2, 2018
Sixteen years ago, at midnight, agents of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, and the CIA kidnapped me at gunpoint in front of my family. They took me on a torturous odyssey of secret prisons that ended in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Earlier this month, the US government declared that itÃâà...
The Independent
February 1, 2018
Trump has suggested that new prisoners from the conflict in Syria and Iraq may be sent to Guantanamo. If that happens then the clock will be set back 16 years and we can expect to see more Western citizens dressed in orange jumpsuits before they are horrifically executed, as Isis and others have done.
Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council
February 1, 2018
And here it began to lose its way, as it capitulated to the increasingly far-left voices from within who viewed life almost exclusively through an anti-American lens. Amnesty UK's official partnership with the Islamist ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg and his pro-jihadist group Cage shattered itsÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
February 1, 2018
Ben Emmerson QC, whose previous clients include the wife of Alexander Litvinenko and the Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, announced the “opening salvo” in an international campaign for the release of the men at a London press conference Thursday. The barrister, representing former viceÃâà...
Islam21c
November 2, 2017
Outreach Director for Cage, Moazzam Begg, has been included in an annual list of the 500 “most influential Muslims” in the world. There are approximately 1.84 billion Muslims in the world today, making up just under one-quarter of mankind. As well as being citizens of our respective countries, we alsoÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
September 28, 2017
For Muhammad Rabbani, his was a brave act of civil disobedience, long overdue. He fought to expose the unjust nature of this law and passed with flying colours. That's how a man convicted of terrorism walks free from court. Like a hero, with a smile on his face. Moazzam Begg is a former Guantanamo BayÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
September 28, 2017
For Muhammad Rabbani, his was a brave act of civil disobedience, long overdue. He fought to expose the unjust nature of this law and passed with flying colours. That's how a man convicted of terrorism walks free from court. Like a hero, with a smile on his face. Moazzam Begg is a former Guantanamo BayÃâà...
Al Jazeera America
September 7, 2017
Moazzam Begg has experienced a generation of conflict. He was detained under suspicion of "terrorism" in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and the UK. He confessed to being a member of al-Qaeda in 2002 and spent almost two years in detention in Guantanamo, yet has never been convicted ofÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
September 7, 2017
Moazzam Begg has experienced a generation of conflict. He was detained under suspicion of "terrorism" in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and the UK. He confessed to being a member of al-Qaeda in 2002 and spent almost two years in detention in Guantanamo, yet has never been convicted ofÃâà...
Huffington Post Canada
July 11, 2017
Speaking from his home in Birmingham in the U.K., Moazzam Begg said Canadians instead should be proud of the federal government for the payment and apology to Khadr for breaching his rights. "The nation shouldn't be upset about issuing an apology for something that's right," Begg told The CanadianÃâà...
