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100 Days of Active Resistance

“The principle idea of Active Resistance is that you get out of life what you put in and that real experience of the world involves thinking. It is not enough to follow world politics, see films and read the prize-winning best...

19 October 2011
Mohammed's incredible appeal response

On Friday we made an urgent appeal for £655 to cover emergency medical costs for former Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed el Gharani, and thanks to an overwhelming response from Reprieve supporters we have raised £1,706: over twice the amount needed! Thank you so much to everyone who made a donation.

11 October 2011
Guantánamo Boy -- lest we forget

Anna Perera’s novel Guantánamo Boy vividly depicts the horrors behind the bars of the detention facilities in Cuba – horrors that should by now be consigned to history. Sadly, they are as real as ever.

20 January 2010
A message of thanks to supporters from Mohammed el Gharani

A video message from Mohammed thanking Reprieve supporters

08 January 2010
Ex-Gitmo detainee struggles to build life in Chad

by Mike Melia, The Associated Press, 18/12/09

18 December 2009
Chad bars Guantanamo ex-inmate from travel - lawyers

by William Maclean, Reuters, 18/12/09

18 December 2009
A Nobel Effort by Chad?

Amongst all the fallout from President Obama’s Nobel Prize win, my favourite is the recent suggestion by a Chadian Minister that the Norwegians made a mistake. This seems like the kind of topsy turvy thinking from the Chadian authorities with which our client Mohammed El Gharani has become all too familiar.

05 November 2009
A message from Mohammed el Gharani

Mohammed el Gharani says thank you to the staff at Reprieve and all the people that have supported him during his time imprisoned in Guantanamo. Mohammed is finally free and with his family in Chad.

02 July 2009
No light, no power, no car...

Interviewing Mohammed el Gharani in Chad threw up some logistical challenges for Al Jazeera's film crew.

30 June 2009
Mohammed el Gharani recovers his football skills

Safe in Chad after his ordeal at Guantánamo, Mohammed el Gharani is finally free to enjoy some of the simple adolescent pleasures of which he was robbed.

29 June 2009
Freed inmate recounts Guantánamo horror

Al Jazeera English, 27/06/09

27 June 2009
Reprieve is dismayed that ‘freed’ Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed el Gharani is inexplicably imprisoned

Reprieve is dismayed that ‘freed’ Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed el Gharani is inexplicably imprisoned by government of Chad; demands his immediate release to his family.

18 June 2009
Mohammed el Gharani waits in a Chad police station to be reunited with his family

Mohammed el Gharani waits in a Chad police station to be reunited with his family.

17 June 2009
The long ordeal of Mohammed El-Gharani

by Andy Worthington, Counter Punch, 12/06/09

12 June 2009
Youngest captive returns to Chad

thestar.com/reuters, 12/06/09

12 June 2009
Youngest Guantánamo Bay detainee released

Mirror, 12/06/09

12 June 2009
US frees Guantánamo detainee seized when a teenager

by Luke Baker, Reuters, 11/06/09

11 June 2009
Guantánamo's youngest prisoner released to Chad

Reprieve is delighted that our client Mohammed el Gharani has been released from Guantánamo Bay to Chad after a seven-year ordeal that began when he was just 14 years old.

11 June 2009
No We Can't: Obama's Guantánamo

Celebrations of a new civil liberties hero were sadly premature. Four months on, dozens of innocents are still in prison.

21 May 2009
Send a book to Mohammed el Gharani for World Book Day

Mohammed el Gharani was just 14 years old when he was wrongfully imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. Despite being ordered to be released by a federal judge, he is still there five years later - the youngest remaining juvenile.

03 March 2009
Mohammed el Gharani (imprisoned aged 14) to be released from Guantánamo Bay

Reprieve is thrilled that our client Mohammed el Gharani is to be released from Guantánamo Bay following a federal court order obtained yesterday.

15 January 2009
FBI confirms that US officials abused only Chadian prisoner in Guantánamo Bay, Mohammed El Gharani

New revelations, contained in a US Department of Justice report on US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) interrogations at Guantánamo Bay, tell of the horrendous abuse suffered by Chadian prisoner Mohammed El Gharani. Mohammed was only 15 years old when he was imprisoned more than six and a half years ago. Mohammed has never been charged with a crime or had a trial.

01 September 2008
Tortured in Guantánamo: Mohammed El Gharani, a son of Chad

Seized in Pakistan at the age of 14, Mohammed El Gharani is one of Guantánamo’s forgotten prisoners, but this need not be the case. The example of Sudan, which has secured the return from the prison of four Sudanese nationals in the last nine months demonstrates what can be achieved through persistent diplomatic pressure on the United States.

28 August 2008
Planning for Life

Few people are as powerless as Mohammed el Gharani – except, perhaps, the many kids in Guantánamo Bay who do not even have lawyers. The question, of course, is what you are going to do about it.

23 May 2006

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