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Chained Pen

  • Thu 9 Nov 7.30pm
  • £5 (£3)
  • Seminar Room
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An audience with Guantanamo ex-detainee Moazzam Begg.

Moazzam will be reading from his book Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey To Guantanamo and Back and in conversation with a member of the South Asian Alliance. Followed by a Q & A Session giving you an opportunity to ask Moazzam your own questions.

Begg spent three years imprisoned in camp <)/span>Echo, Guantanamo, much of it in solitary confinement. After being subjected to over three hundred interrogations, death threats and torture and witnessed the killing of two detainees he was eventually released in 2005 without being charged and without an explanation or apology.

'A brilliant, terrifying and deeply moving account...A warning of the dangers inherent in using religion to justify war'  Tony Benn

Moazzam was born and raised in Birmingham where he now lives with his family. He has travelled extensively and worked for Aid projects in Bosnia and Afghanistan before his detention.