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Rating: 4 out of 5. In 2002, Mohamedou Ould Salahi arrived in Guantanamo Bay prison, Cuba, deemed by the Americans to be the mastermind behind 9/11. It would be 14 years before Salahi would prove his innocence and eventually return to his home country of Mauritania. The Mauritanian tells the story of Salahi (Tahar Rahim) and his lawyers Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and Teri Duncan (Shailene Woodley) and their fight for justice against a country seeking vengeance for the September 11 attacks. Salahi, who joined the Mujahideen fighting in Afghanistan to overthrow the Communist government in...

Benedict Cumberbatch wants Guantanamo Bay shut down after working on The Mauritanian © Roy Rochlin/Getty Images The Academy Award-nominated actor also says he feared he was COVID-19 "patient zero" in a new interview. Benedict Cumberbatch plans to ask Joe Biden to shut down Guantanamo Bay after learning the prison facility's secrets while working on the 2021 film "Hoping? I'm going to plead with the guy," the Academy Award-nominated actor said in an interview with The Independent about his intention to speak to Biden. Guantanamo Bay is a U.S. military prison off the coast of Cuba establis...

April 4, 2021 at 10:10 am Mohamedou Ould Slahi, 50, has never been convicted of any crime or even charged with any offence. Nevertheless, he spent 14 years of captivity in America's notorious Guantanamo Bay prison, where he was beaten, sexually humiliated, waterboarded, subject to mock executions, and electrocuted repeatedly. "They tried to force me to confess for a crime I did not commit," he explained to me. "I was deprived of sleep and interrogated for the first seventy days, as well as prevented from praying or fasting." On the basis of flimsy evidence, Slahi was dubbed Prisoner Number ...

Rating: The notion of an irresistible force confronting an immovable object has excited storytellers for centuries, and now we have Warner Brothers to thank for abbreviating it to Godzilla vs Kong. We can doubtless expect this film title to pop up in the context of sport, politics, business and heaven knows what else for years to come. In truth, it is not the first cinematic showdown between the Hairy One and the Scaly One. They first squared off in the 1962 Japanese film King Kong vs Godzilla. This latest blockbuster, too, should have been well behind us by now, but not even Godzilla and Ko...

Is there any image in the post 9/11 conspiracy drama genre more ubiquitous than heavily redacted legal files? Those black lines struck through word after word like blocks of thunder smothering all sense of intelligent life. They represent the hopeless struggle of men and women stolen from the world and suspended in a bureaucratic limbo that Kafka himself would find hard pressed to imagine. In Kevin Macdonald’s adaptation of Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi, The Mauritanian, we are confronted with 20,000 boxes worth. Salahi was detained in Guantanamo Bay for 14 years, the victim o...