"Guantanamo Diary" 14 Years Inside and One Innocent Man Still Battling for Freedom

“Guantanamo Diary” is an extraordinary jail journal. The work of Mohamedou Ould Slahi who handwrote the 122,000 word diary. For the past fourteen years he has been a prisoner in the notorious US detention camp in Guantanamo Cuba. The diary, a declassified memoir that was released after an eight year legal battle. “Guantanamo Diary” is already a best seller in Germany and a massive attendance at the launch in London’s Tabernacle organized by the Guardian newspaper this week suggests it will probably be an international best seller. “Guantanemo Diary” is a powerful story of courage by an innocent man who who was secretly kidnapped from his home in Mauritania, before eventually ending up in Guantanamo, through the notorious process of rendition run by the CIA. Caught in legal limbo his familiy and his lawyers are hopeful that the publicity around his diary will help secure his release.

Filmmaker and broadcaster Anne Daly attended the launch of “Guantanemo Diary” and met Mohamedou’s Ould Slahi editor Larry Siems, his younger brother Yahdih Ould Slahi, and lawyer Nancy Hollander.

Anne Daly is co-founder with Ronan Tynan of award winning independent production company Esperanza Productions.

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