Enemy Combatant: The Terrifying True Story of a Briton in Guantánamo - Couverture souple

Begg, Moazzam

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1416522654 ISBN 13 : 9781416522652

Editeur : Pocket Books, 2007

Synopsis

Moazzam Begg is an ordinary man who has endured an extraordinary fate -- imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit and whose precise nature has never been determined. As far as the US government was concerned, it was enough to label him an 'enemy combatant'. Moazzam was arrested in Pakistan, where he was helping set up education programmes for children, in the panic-stricken months after the 9/11 attacks. He spent three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, and was subjected to over three hundred interrogations, death threats and torture, witnessing the killings of two detainees. He was released early in 2005 without explanation or apology. ENEMY COMBATANT is his riveting story. Not just an instant classic of incarceration literature, it reveals for the first time what it means to be an intelligent, engaged Muslim living in the West after 9/11, by someone who has recently emerged as an influential voice in the Muslim community, against both acts of terrorism and the demonising of Islam.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Moazzam Begg was born in Birmingham in 1968. A former law student, he has travelled extensively in support of Muslim causes. His co-writer, Victoria Brittain, is a former Associate Foreign Editor of the Guardian, and co-author (with Gillian Slovo) of the play Guantanamo: Honour Bound to Defend Freedom.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pocket Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1416522654
• ISBN 13: 9781416522652
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible