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Guantanamo film shocks viewers
Hard-hitting film The Road to Guantanamo opened in the UAE on Wednesday and audiences have described the conditions it portrays as "inhuman".
- By Daniel Bardsley, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:00 July 12, 2006
Dubai: Hard-hitting film The Road to Guantanamo opened in the UAE on Wednesday and audiences have described the conditions it portrays as "inhuman".
The award-winning movie tells the story of three men captured in Afghanistan and held in the notorious US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay.
Among those who saw the film on Wednesday was Saudi personnel manager Manal Yassim, 30, who said the way the trio was treated was "very brutal".
"Even if someone is a prisoner, they should be treated properly. You should not treat even your enemies in this way.
"This is how people really were treated - we know that from the pictures that came out of other prisons, such as those in Iraq. What's happening in the film is real. The treatment is inhuman," she said after a screening at Cinestar in Deira City Centre.
The Road to Guantanamo shows three British Muslims of Pakistani origin, Ruham Ahmad, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul, as they leave their homes in England and travel to Pakistan shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
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They cross the border into Afghanistan, where they eventually are captured by the Northern Alliance and held in an horrendously overcrowded jail.
Later the three, interviews with whom form a major part of the film, are flown to Guantanamo Bay, which was to be their home until they were released without charge in 2004.
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