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Words From Inside The Detention Camp At Guantánamo Bay

Katie Blackley
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90.5 WESA
Editor Larry Siems holds his copy of "Guantanamo Diary," written by Mohamedou Slahi.

Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba even though the U.S. has never charged him with a crime. A federal judge ordered his release in March 2010, but he remains imprisoned. Slahi has kept a diary that has been published as "Guantanamo Diary." It was edited by Larry Siems who is appearing tonight as part of a City of Asylum presentation. He'll join us in studio to discuss the process he went through in editing the diary.

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