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Watch Reprieve's Katie Taylor on Albanian television

If you speak Albanian, watch Reprieve's Katie Taylor talking about why ex-Guantanamo prisoner Sherif Almeshad should be allowed to return home to Egypt.

30 March 2012
Reprieve calls on Albania to allow ex-Guantánamo prisoner Sherif Almeshad’s return home to Egypt

In a Tirana press conference today, Reprieve's Katie Taylor will describe how the Albanian authorities are unnecessarily preventing the return home of an innocent former ex-Guantánamo prisoner to Egypt.

27 March 2012
Free - if Norway wants it...

I'm in Norway at the moment with Polly, campaigning for asylum for ex-Guantánamo prisoners.

03 September 2009
The story of Sherif El-Meshad, a forgotten Italian resident in Guantánamo Bay

In 1997, Sherif El-Meshad, who was born in Egypt in 1976, travelled to Italy, where he registered as an Italian resident and stayed in Como with his maternal uncle, who had been living in Italy for 30 years and is an Italian citizen. In 2001, following a summer vacation in Afghanistan, Sherif El-Meshad is arrested attempting to return to Italy via Afghanistan. He spent three weeks in a Pakistani prison in Peshawar, and was then flown to the US prison at Kandahar airport, where he spent another five months before being transferred to Guantánamo.

09 September 2008