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DESCRIPTION:Mansoor Adayfi, Andy Worthington and Shelby Sullivan-Bennis speaking on 
 America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo...It Must Be Closed 
 NOW!\n\nMansoor Adayfi, an innocent man who was detained without charge for 
 15 years in Guantanamo, is the author of a new memoir Don't Forget Us Here: 
 Lost and Found at Guantanamo, published in August 2021. Mansoor is a 
 citizen of Yemen but upon his release from Guantanamo, he was sent to 
 Serbia - a place Mansoor describes as "Guantanamo 2.0."  Order his book 
 here https://www.revolutionbooks.org/book/9780306923869\n\nAndy 
 Worthington, British journalist and co-founder of www.CloseGuantanamo.org. 
 Andy is internationally known for exposing the horrors of the Guantanamo 
 detention camp, and bringing to light the true stories of the men 
 detained.\n\nShelby Sullivan-Benis, a lawyer for Guantanamo prisoners and 
 victims of U.S. drone strikes outside of war zones, will also speak on 
 Sunday. \n\nSunday's program will feature a video performance of a short 
 piano piece by composer-guitarist Luis McDougal entitled "Homage to Abu." 
 It is dedicated to Abu Zubaydah who has been repeatedly tortured and 
 remains detained without charge at Guantanamo (for 20 years). \n\n-- Abu 
 Zubaydah: "I was told...that I was one of the first to receive these 
 interrogation techniques, so no rules applied. It felt like they were 
 experimenting and trying out techniques to be used later on other people." 
 \n\nJanuary 2022 marks the 20th year since the Guantanamo torture colony 
 was set up. Joe Biden is the fourth president—two Democrats and two 
 Republicans—to preside over a facility whose torture practices have been, 
 for two decades, an extreme violation of U.S. and international law. \n\nIn 
 January 2002, President George W. Bush created the military prison within 
 the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The vast majority of those held 
 there from its beginnings were picked up without any incriminating 
 evidence. Guantanamo prison is a shameful icon of torture, including water 
 boarding, and of indefinite detention without charge or trial. It violates 
 basic human rights -- and has been a tool of U.S. imperialism’s “wars 
 without end” in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa.\n \nRead 
 www.revcom.us for more on Guantanamo.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/26/18847604.php
SUMMARY:America's Torture Chamber: 20 Years of Guantanamo... It Must Be Closed NOW!
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/26/18847604.php
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