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DESCRIPTION:Join film director and author Andy Worthington for a screening of his new 
 documentary, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo", followed by 
 Q&A.\n\nSponsored by World Can't Wait.\n\nAbout the film:\n \n“Outside 
 the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” is a new documentary film, directed by 
 Polly Nash and Andy Worthington (and inspired by Andy’s book, The 
 Guantánamo Files). The film tells the story of Guantánamo (and includes 
 sections on extraordinary rendition and secret prisons) with a particular 
 focus on how the Bush administration turned its back on domestic and 
 international laws, how prisoners were rounded up in Afghanistan and 
 Pakistan without adequate screening (and often for bounty payments), and 
 why some of these men may have been in Afghanistan or Pakistan for reasons 
 unconnected with militancy or terrorism (as missionaries or humanitarian 
 aid workers, for example).\n \nThe film is based around interviews with 
 former prisoners (Moazzam Begg and, in his first major interview, Omar 
 Deghayes, who was released in December 2007), lawyers for the prisoners 
 (Clive Stafford Smith in the UK and Tom Wilner in the US), and journalist 
 and author Andy Worthington, and also includes appearances from 
 Guantánamo’s former Muslim chaplain James Yee, Shakeel Begg, a 
 London-based Imam, and the British human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce.\n 
 \nFocusing on the stories of three particular prisoners — Shaker Aamer 
 (who is still held), Binyam Mohamed (who was released in February 2009) and 
 Omar Deghayes — “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” 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.\n \nFor worldwide inquiries about 
 broadcasting, distributing or showing “Outside the Law: Stories from 
 Guantánamo,” please contact Andy Worthington or Polly Nash .\n“Outside 
 the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” is a Spectacle Production (74 minutes, 
 2009).\n\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/02/18627579.php
SUMMARY:West Coast Film Premiere: OUTSIDE THE LAW- STORIES FROM GUANTANAMO
LOCATION:North Berkeley Senior Center\n1901 Hearst Avenue (at Martin Luther King Jr. 
 Way)\nwheelchair accessible
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/02/18627579.php
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