Venue & Time Friday the 8th August 8.00 pm Lightwaves Leisure Centre, Lower York Street, Marsh Way, Wakefield WF1 3LJ
Moazzam Begg is one of nine British citizens who were held in Guantanamo Bay by the government of the United States of America. Begg was labelled an "enemy combatant" by the US government and imprisoned without charge or trial for a crime he did not commit. In the three years he spent in custody, much of it in solitary confienement, he was subjected to over 300 interrogations, as well as beatings, death threats and torture, witnessing the killings of two detainees. Since his reelase he has been working with the human rights organisation, cage prisoners, campaigning for those who remain in Guantanamo.
Venue & Time Friday the 8th August 8.00 pm Lightwaves Leisure Centre, Lower York Street, Marsh Way, Wakefield WF1 3LJ