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March 29, 2018
Michael Bronner is scripting the project which follows the tribulations of 45 year-old Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a man who was a suspected terrorist and had been incarcerated at Guantanamo bay for 15 years without ever being charged with a crime or having the opportunity to defend himself in court. He wasÃâà...
Charlotte Observer
December 15, 2017
During the 14 years I spent cut off from the world in the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, I often found myself wondering whether people cared about the conditions under which I was being held. Since my release a little more than one year ago, I've been impressed by how many people do care – somethingÃâà...
WUNC
June 13, 2017
Mohamedou Ould Slahi is an innocent man who spent 14 years detained and tortured in Guantanamo Bay. Listen. Listening... /. 19:36. A conversation with ex Gauntanamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi and Frank Goldsmith, co-chair of the North Carolina Commission on Inquiry of Torture, about theirÃâà...
Qantara.de
May 24, 2017
Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi spent more than fourteen years in Guantanamo. His "Guantanamo diary", which has been translated into numerous languages, won him global acclaim. After a protracted legal battle, Slahi finally released in October 2016. In an exclusive interview with Emran Feroz,Ãâà...
CBS News
March 9, 2017
Mohamedou Slahi, whose personal enhanced interrogation program was directly approved by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and has since been outlawed, praised the American people for allowing him to write a book about his experience at Guantanamo Bay. The former detainee was the only one held atÃâà...
The Independent
October 20, 2016
A man who is widely regarded as the most tortured prisoner in the history of Guantanamo Bay has been released without charge after nearly 14 years. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian national who wrote a best-selling memoir about life in the detention centre, was reunited with his family after USÃâà...
New York Times
January 20, 2015
One fall day 13 years ago Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a 30-year-old electrical engineer and telecommunications specialist, received a visit at his house in Noakchott, Mauritania, from two officers summoning him to come answer questions at the country's intelligence ministry. “Take your car,” one of the menÃâà...
