The incredible and terrifying story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, arrested in 2001 in his home country Mauritania and from there taken to the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. A nightmare of denie...
Larry Siems
writer and human rights activist
Larry Siems is a writer and human rights activist and served for many years as director of Freedom to Write and International Programs at PEN American Center in New York. He edited and introduced Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Diary, the first-ever account of the notorious facility by a still-detained prisoner, published this year in 21 countries. He is also the author of The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture Program, which drew on 140,000 pages of formerly secret government documents to construct a comprehensive narrative of the Bush administration’s torture program, and Between the Lines: Letters from Undocumented Mexican and Central American Immigrants and Their Families and Friends. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
After the end of the Obama presidency, the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay remains standing, despite a long sequence of institutional promises and demands from American civil society. Trump has dec...
A story of freedom and denied rights. Since 2002, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been held in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, despite having been acquitted for lack of evidence. In 2005, he began writing a...