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Feb. 20 (UPI) --A former Guantanamo Bay detention facility prisoner who once made art by scratching pictures into Styrofoam cups with a plastic spoon has been pushing the U.S. Defense Department ...
Guantanamo Bay Inmates Created Art in Detention But the U.S. Military Says It’s Not Theirs to Keep Current and former Guantanamo prisoners are petitioning to strike down a 2017 policy banning ...
Some Guantanamo Bay prisoners held for years without charges 02:56. Maher said he hadn't had a chance to speak with Qasim since the board's decision last week, but he said the Yemeni has some ...
Pentagon Releases Guantánamo Bay Prisoners’ Art Since 2017, detainees have been barred from taking their art out of the prison. Molly Enking - Daily Correspondent. February 10, 2023.
In this photograph taken on May 2, 2023, Ahmed Rabbani, a Pakistani freed after spending 20 years in Guantánamo Bay prison, shows his painting to visitors during an exhibition of his work titled ...
Gitmo prisoner finds freedom in art. AFP, KARACHI, Pakistan. When Ahmed Rabbani ran out of paint to satisfy his artistic yearnings during 20 years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, he turned to ...
We hear from Erin L. Thompson, Molly Crabapple, and Mansoor Adayfi, who was detained without charge at the military prison for almost 15 years, on how art is a lifeline for those incarcerated there.
When Moath al-Alwi left Guantánamo Bay for resettlement in Oman, accompanying him on his journey was a cache of artwork he created during more than two decades of detention. Al-Alwi was detainee ...
The US military has been accused of censoring art created by prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay – some of it showing torture and abuse carried out by the CIA and military personnel as part ...
When Ahmed Rabbani ran out of paint to satisfy his artistic yearnings during 20 years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, he turned to whatever came to hand – dirt, coffee grinds and even spices such ...
In Part 2 of our interview with former Guantánamo detainee Mansoor Adayfi, he discusses how he and others who have been released are calling on Biden to let them keep the artwork they produced ...