Past events at the Irish center for human rights

Enemy Combatant:                                                                                     My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram & Kandahar

The Irish Centre for Human Rights & NUIG Muslim Youth Society: PUBLIC LECTURE

Date: Monday 8th November
Time: 6.00-8pm

Venue:  Martin Ryan Annex Building, Lecture Theater 201

Speaker: Moazzam Begg
Chair: Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh

Moazzam Begg was seized in January 2002 by Pakistani police and CIA officers, held at Bagram airbase for nearly a year and then transferred to Guantanamo Bay where he was one of nine British citizens held at Camp X-Ray.  In all he spend three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement, and was subjected to over three hundred interrogations, as well as death threats and torture, witnessing the killings of two detainees. Begg was labeled an ’enemy combatant’ by the US government.  He was released on January 25, 2005 along with Feroz Abbasi, Martin Mubanga and Richard Belmar. President Bush released Moazzam Begg over the objections of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the FBI, who warned that Mr. Begg could still be a dangerous terrorist.

Begg who is the author of a book about his Guantánamo experiences titled Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar, co-written with Victoria Brittain, will speak about his experiences in custody and detention under the US authorities.

Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought,  7 October 2010. 

The Irish Centre for Human Rights together with the Office of the European Parliament in Ireland are holding an event to mark the 2010 Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.

Thursday 7 October, 6:00pm On NUIG campus in Theatre IT250, 1st floor IT building

Since 1988, in the spirit of Andrei Sakharov, the European Parliament has awarded the annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in order to honour individuals or organisations for their efforts on behalf of human rights and fundamental freedoms and against oppression and injustice. There are nine nominees for the prize this year.

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