Open Meeting and Screening to mark the 8th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Bay
7.30pm, Friends Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh

“Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” is a new documentary film (75 mins), directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files.

TODAY (Mon 11th Jan) is the 8th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. We'll be marking the occasion a day afterwards by showing this crucial film by Andy Worthington

The screening will be followed by a discussion.

Andy Worthington says:

"One year ago, it looked feasible that Guantánamo would close by January 2010. We now know that President Obama’s self-imposed deadline will be missed, partly through the unprincipled agitating of opportunistic opponents in Congress and the media, and partly through the government’s own lack of courage in the face of this opposition, but this is no reason for complacency. As the eighth anniversary of the prison’s opening approaches, it remains imperative that those who oppose the existence of indefinite detention without charge or trial — and who call, instead, for the full reinstatement of the Geneva Conventions for prisoners of war, and federal court trials for terrorists — maintain the pressure to close Guantánamo, and to charge or release the prisoners held there, as swiftly as possible."

This meeting is being held in place of the regular SACC monthly planning meeting