Slahi makes an appeal to his persecutors to come to tea with him. In Guantánamo Diary Revisited, Slahi-who endured countless forms of abuse at the hands of the nefarious “special projects” team between 20-and the filmmakers attempt to track down his torturers in the military and intelligence apparatus. I was the victim of such an operation, though I had done no such thing and have never been part of any such crimes.”

government,” writes Slahi in Guantánamo Diary, “started a secret operation aimed at kidnapping, detaining, torturing, or killing terrorist suspects, an operation that has no legal basis.

Bush to use force against those who planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks, “the U.S. Justifying its conduct on the basis of the Septemjoint resolution of Congress authorizing President George W. The September 2001 events served as the occasion for a frontal assault on democratic rights in the US, including the passage of the 2001 Patriot Act, the spread of unrestrained spying, “extraordinary rendition,” indefinite detention, torture and military tribunals associated with Guantánamo and CIA black sites, along with the militarization of police agencies and the persecution of Muslims and immigrants. In the film’s opening, Goetz argues that “it’s a David and Goliath story … the whole weight and power of the American government focused against one individual.” John Goetz, an American journalist based in Germany who wrote an article for Der Spiegel about Slahi in 2007, has created (along with Ben Hopkins) an in-depth and jarring documentary about Mohamedou’s case, Guantánamo Diary Revisited (also known as In Search of Monsters, and, in German, Slahi und seine Folterer: Das Leben nach Guantanamo).

It was based on Slahi’s account of his ordeal, Guantánamo Diary (2015), an international bestseller. Slahi, according to a statistic kept by the detention center, was the “most tortured man in Guantánamo.” No evidence has ever been produced to convict him of any crime.Ī strong, moving feature film, The Mauritanian, with Jodie Foster playing his lawyer, was released in 2021. He was imprisoned in the notorious Cuban prison after US investigators alleged he was one of the masterminds of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Slahi, who was held by the US for 14 years in the Guantánamo hellhole, continues to be abused by his tormentors.

Is the act based on true story