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‘WAR ON TERROR’: LEGACY, JUSTICE, ART | Film Screening: The Forever Prisoner
11 May @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Join us the evening before the conference on the ‘“War on Terror”: Legacy, Justice, Art’ for a screening of Alex Gibney’s acclaimed documentary The Forever Prisoner (HBO 2021), followed by a discussion with Cathy Scott-Clark, co-author (with Adrian Levy) of the companion book of the same name.
The film tells the story of Abu Zubaydah—the first ‘high-value detainee’ subjected to the CIA’s post-9/11 torture and extraordinary rendition programme—and offers a searing portrait of the legal and moral failures that defined an era. Still detained without charge at Guantánamo after 24 years, Abu Zubaydah’s case encapsulates many of the themes that will run through the conference the following day: impunity, exceptionalism, and the limits of law in the face of state power.
Speaker:
Cathy Scott-Clark is a British journalist who worked with the Sunday Times and The Guardian, co-author of seven books with Adrian Levy, including The Forever Prisoner: The Full and Searing Account of the CIA’s Most Controversial Covert Program (2022). In 2012, she received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2009, the British Journalist of the Year Award.
Chair: Marie Petersmann (LSE Law School)
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The screening is co-organised by Helen Duffy (Leiden), Marie Petersmann and Gerry Simpson (LSE).