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A U.S. government review board has cleared one of the longest-held prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for release. The Periodic Review Board said in its July 19 "final determination" that there was no ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The prisoner Mohammed Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani painted this scene at Guantánamo Bay and gave it to a lawyer before the Trump administration banned all such releases in 2017. Mr. Rabbani, who is one ...
The Pentagon has officially ended a policy barring Guantánamo Bay prisoners from keeping their art when they’re released. The news comes four months after current and former prisoners wrote an ...
In Part 2 of our interview, former Guantánamo detainee Mansoor Adayfi discusses how he and others who have been released want Biden to let them keep the artwork they produced during their years ...
In 2010, the Obama administration began offering art classes at Guantánamo in an attempt to show the world they were treating prisoners humanely and helping them occupy their time.
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 spices such as ...
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 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 ...