(U.K.) Channel 4 to make Guantánamo Bay docu-drama (The Guardian)

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("I was left in a room and strobe lighting was put on and very loud music. It was a dance version of Eminem played repeatedly." Now if that isn't Torture?!?)

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Channel 4 to make Guantánamo Bay docu-drama

Jason Deans, broadcasting editor
Wednesday June 29, 2005

Channel 4 has teamed up with the award-winning film director Michael Winterbottom to make a docu-drama about three British Muslims who were incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay as "enemy combatants".

The Road to Guantánamo will tell the story of the so-called "Tipton Three", who were released without charge from the US government's Camp X-Ray prison last spring after two years in captivity. Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed set off with another friend from Tipton, their west Midlands hometown, in September 2001 for a wedding and holiday in Pakistan. The three were captured in Afghanistan and then held in Guantánamo Bay for two years.

Their story will be told through a mixture of interviews, archive footage and dramatic recreations of events, based on extensive testimony supplied by the three men. In a 115-page dossier, based on two months of interviews by the men's lawyers and published last year, they allege they were repeatedly beaten, shackled in painful positions during interrogations and subjected to sleep deprivation.

On one occasion, Mr Iqbal recalled: "I was left in a room and strobe lighting was put on and very loud music. It was a dance version of Eminem played repeatedly." Mr Rasul said he was asked: "If I wanted to get surface-to-air missiles from someone in Tipton, who would I go to?"

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