Brother of Guantanamo prisoner speaks in Cork/Kino showing of The Road to Guantanamo

cork | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Tuesday May 16, 2006 11:54 by Cork Antiwar - Cork Alliance Against War

On Sunday May 28th, Cork Alliance Against War and the Irish Anti War movement will host a special Day of Information/discussion/Fundraiser in the fight against War and Torture.

Details are as follows.

The Road to Guantanamo
(A film by Michael Winterbottom)
Special Introduction by Abu Baker Deghayes.
(Brother of Guantanamo prisoner)
Kino Cinema Washington Street
Sun May 28th 12:00 Noon

Public Meeting
Stop the US war and torture machine
Speakers: Abu Baker Deghayes (brother of Guantanamo prisoner)
Ed Horgan (Author of rendition for Torture report to EU parliament)
Richard Boyd Barrett (Chair: Irish Anti War Movement)
Paddy O'Keeffe (British Stop the War coalition)
An Spailpin Fanach
Sunday May 28th 3:00 P.M.

Omar Deghayes:
Abu Baker Deghayes’ brother Omar has been in Guantanamo Bay prison for five years. The Irish Anti War Movement has organised a tour of meetings next week where Abu Baker will speak about the illegal kidnapping, detention and torture of his brother Omar Deghayes.

Omar and his family left Libya 1986 after his father, a democrat and trade unionist,
was assassinated by Colonel Gaddafi's regime. In 2001 Omar travelled to Afghanistan
where he met and married his wife and had a son. When war broke out they moved to
Pakistan. Omar was arrested by bounty-hunters and sold to the US Military. The only
"evidence" for his arrest was a video from the Spanish authorities
allegedly showing Omar. But experts have confirmed that the person in the video
isn't Omar. While in prison Omar was tortured using pepper spray in his eyes, so
much was used that he is now completely blind in one eye. The US authorities also
allowed Libyan interrogators to interview him. They threatened him, saying, "In
here I cannot do anything, but if I meet you later I will kill you”.

All Welcome!