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Amnesty International presents former 'war on terror' detainee Murat Kurnaz who will speak at the Irish launch of his powerful book, Five years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo.
Readings from the book will be followed by a Q&A session chaired by Amnesty's local director Patrick Corrigan.
This is a shocking, revealing testimony, which has become a bestseller in his native Germany.
For more than 1,600 days, Kurnaz was tortured and lived through hell. Arrested in Pakistan, transferred to Afghanistan and flown to Guantánamo Bay, he was kept in a cage and endured daily interrogations, solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, physical abuse and sexual humiliation.
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Kurnaz was finally released in August 2006 with acknowledgment of his innocence. Told with lucidity, accuracy, and wisdom, Kurnaz's testimony is one of few to emerge from Guantánamo. His story is all the more compelling because Kurnaz was one of the first to be held there, aged only 19, and he was imprisoned for five years though his jailers knew he was innocent for at least four of those.
The most compassionate, truthful and dignified account of the disgrace of Guantánamo that you are ever likely to read. JOHN LE CARRÉ
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