On the 4th of August, 2002, 31-year-old Mohamedou Ould Slahi was flown to Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the military prison in Cuba which has been used to detain and torture hundreds of people since being established in the wake of 9/11. Slahi was held without charge for an unimaginable 14 years, during which time he was forced to endure physical beatings, sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, sexual humiliation, starvation, and on one occasion a mock execution. A year before his 2016 release, his unflinching and profoundly important memoir, Guantanamo Diary, was published to wide acclaim.
That story was brought to the big screen in The Mauritanian, a film starring Benedict Cumberbatch, who here introduces Mohamedou Ould Slahi to read a letter of his own, written to a political prisoner at Letters Live at London's Roundhouse in July 2021.
Негізгі бет Ойын-сауық Mohamedou Ould Slahi reads his letter to a political prisoner, introduced by Benedict Cumberbatch
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