[Reader-list] [Announcements] Screening of "Road To Guantanamo" this Friday.

[Mayur]

Dear All,
Please joins us for a screening of "Road to Guantanamo" this Friday, October
5, at 6 pm, at the (Old) ALF office at 122/4, Opposite Infantry Wedding
House, Infantry Road, Bangalore - 1. A short synopsis of the film is below.

Hope to see you this friday
Mayur

*The Road to Guantanamo* is a 2006 award winning docudrama directed by
Michael Winterbottom about the incarceration of three British detainees at
Guantánamo Bay.

The film tells the disputed story of Ruhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq
Rasul, three young British men, (the Tipton Three) from Tipton in the West
Midlands who were captured by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in 2001
and detained as "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay, without charge or
legal representation, for nearly three years. As well as interviews with the
three men themselves and archive news footage from the period, the film
contains an account of the three men's experiences following their capture
by the Northern Alliance, the subsequent handover to the United States
military and their detention in Cuba. It contains several scenes depicting
their alleged beatings during interrogation, the use of alleged torture
techniques such as 'stress positions' and attempts to extract forced
confessions of involvement with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

The Tipton Three were all released without charge and without any
compensation for their imprisonment in 2004.
The torture depicted in the film, had to be softened from the detainees'
claims for the benefit of the actors; according to Rizwan Ahmed, they were
unable to bear the pain caused by the shackles pressing on their legs, and
had to have them cushioned. They were also unable to remain in the stress
positions depicted for more than an hour; the Tipton Three claim they were
left in them for up to eight hours.
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