For nearly 11 years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been a prisoner in Guantánamo. In 2005, he began to write his memoirs of his time in captivity. His handwritten 466-page manuscript is a harrowing account ...
Near the end of his hellish account of perpetual torture, Mohamedou Ould Slahi makes what appears to be a remarkable confession. Slahi, a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who wrote a 466-page memoir ...
One of the seven authors was Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held without charge for 14 years, during which time he was repeatedly tortured, before his release in 2016. He says he also ...
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose book detailed his treatment by the US military, was found to have no ‘continuing significant threat’ to US security One of the most tortured men in the history of ...
In January 2015, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a prisoner at Guantánamo, will become the first prisoner still held to have his memoir published. Guantánamo Diary, which he wrote by hand as a 466-page ...
On 20 November 2001, Mohamedou Ould Slahi said goodbye to his mother and voluntarily drove himself from his home in Nouakchott, Mauritania, to a police station for questioning. Within days he was ...
MOHAMEDOU OULD SLAHI, the Guantánamo Bay detainee whose memoir, Guantánamo Diary, became a bestselling book, will receive a hearing with the prison’s Periodic Review Board this June that could result ...
Mohamedou Ould Slahi joined the rebels in Afghanistan in the early 1990s, was seized in his native Mauritania a decade later, and was sent to Jordan, where he was held for months. He eventually landed ...
Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...
This piece originally appeared at Slate. It has become a rite of passage for new authors in the digital age to obsessively check Amazon to track book sales and tweet positive reviews in the hopes of ...
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This file photo shows in-processing at Camp X-Ray in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002. Photo by Petty Officer 1st class Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Navy/Getty Images PART TWO: DISAPPEARED In July 2003, as ...