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Mohamedou Ould Slahi has some advice for his onetime captors: Come clean about what was done to the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and transfer those accused of committing the 9/11 attacks to the U.S. so they can be openly tried in a court of law.

PG-13 | 1h 51min | Drama, Biography | 29 October 2021 (USA) Over the course of his impressive, not-quite two decade career, Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Kevin Macdonald’s film is adapted from Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s 2015 memoir, that details the life of a prisoner held without charges in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years

The Mauritian, starring Tahar Rahim, tells the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who is imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay in the suspicion of being a 9/11 participant.

By Cam Lucadou-Wells In what’s believed to be an RSL first, national service medals simply sent in the mail have been presented to veterans in a formal ceremony in Dandenong. Five members of Dandenong-Cranbourne RSL were recognised in front of friends and loved ones at the sub-branch’s ‘president’s lunch’ on 18 April. Nearly 50 years after their service, Cyril Lloyd and David Wells were finally presented with Australian Defence Medals and Commemoration of National Service Medals. Both...

"Well, I think you could make a documentary about this subject matter. But, obviously, you would always be at a distance from it. But its very differ

The Mauritanian movie review: Tahar Rahim film alternates between a dazzling true story and a generic Hollywood thriller Firstpost 1 hour ago Tatsam Mukherjee © Provided by Firstpost The Mauritanian movie review: Tahar Rahim film alternates between a dazzling true story and a generic Hollywood thriller The year is 2021, and we have a courtroom thriller where a lawyer invariably ends up saying, "it doesnt matter what I believe, it only matters what I can prove". Said by Nanc...

In non-pandemic times it would have been a royal funeral with full military honours By Isaac Bickerstaff Weirdly enough, the film isn’t much of an upper, as films go. The last third is especially hard going, when Mohamedous amiable interviewers at Guantanamo give up, having got nowhere despite plying him with cake and tea, and cede the ground to the muscle men: army guys who know h...

Tahar Rahim in The Mauritanian (2021) | STX Entertainment If the idea of being kidnapped and incarcerated for 14 years without being charged of any crime isn’t terrifying enough, imagine being held on an island hundreds of miles from home in a facility that epitomises horrible human rights violations. Kevin Macdonald’s The Mauritanian is the true-life story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a detainee at the infamous American naval base Guantanamo Bay. Slahi had been on the Ameri...

LONDON: There were some raised eyebrows when the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards included no mention of Kevin Macdonald’s legal drama “The Mauritanian” — but perhaps fewer than there may have been, given that the COVID-19 pandemic has (as in so many cases) restricted its wider release to streaming services, so audiences outside of America only now have the chance to see Macdonald’s adaption of Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s 2015 memoir “Guantánamo Diary.” “The Mauritanian” ...