Posted on 04/07/2021 3:35:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
"I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world"
Benedict Cumberbatch says he wants Guantánamo Bay closed after working on ‘The Mauritanian’ "I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world"
Benedict Cumberbatch has said he wants Guantánamo Bay closed following his work on recent film The Mauritanian.
The film, which is being produced by SunnyMarch – an independent film and television company that Cumberbatch jointly owns – explores the experiences of Mohamedou Ould Slahi who was incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay for 14 years without charge.
After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the offshore prison camp in Cuba was set up to hold suspects relating to terror charges. However, many suspects remained there against their will and without trial for years, Many detainees also alleged they were tortured frequently.
After reading Slahi’s memoir Guantánamo Diary, Cumberbatch told The Independent he was “hooked on [Slahi’s] voice” and decided to make a film about his experiences. The film stars Cumberbatch alongside Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster.
Foster plays Nancy Hollander, a lawyer who spent years trying to get Slahi freed from Guantánamo, in the film. Foster has already won a Golden Globe for her performance and the film is also up for five BAFTAs next week.
Cumberbatch said: “I feel quite strongly that Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world.” When asked if he hopes US President Joe Biden will close Guantánamo, Cumberbatch added: “Hoping? I’m going to plead with the guy.
“It is a huge spend,” he went on. “It’s the most expensive prison on earth. And what are the results? Where are the prosecutions? That’s just being really brutally economic about it, it just doesn’t work. And then you have the human rights issue.
“It’s an atrocious own goal, I think for the free world to be incarcerating people through extraordinary rendition, torturing them and extracting confessions they think are then usable in prosecution…it is a really dangerous, unnecessary and ineffectual place, I think, and enough people have suffered there.”
In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote: “Considering the awful humanitarian crimes that went on behind closed doors in Guantanamo Bay, there’s definitely a much more powerful film to be made out of Salahi’s story than the one we get in The Mauritanian.
“Instead giving us a political suspenser with a slightly softened bite, Macdonald’s solid, occasionally generic exposé still lands with weight thanks to Rahim – a name that really should have been on that Oscar list.”
Meanwhile, I don't think Guantanamo is one of the top 25 worst prisons in the world. He doesn't want to close Camp 22 in North Korea, Carandiru in Brazil, etc.
Is Guantanamo worse than ADX Florence in Colorado?
Isnt that precious. 🤢
I’d like to see GitMo expanded and filled with AntiFa.
How about Black Dolphin in Russia or any prison in China?
People get one side of a story from people proven to be militants and they take it as gospel.
Me thinks Gitmo to small.
another individual who pretends to be another person with delusions of adequacy.
> “...Guantánamo doesn’t have a place in our world” <
And neither do the monsters imprisoned there.
We can find out where he lives and set them up in homes on his street.
benderbumcummersnatch
Cumberbatch can’t run for president, he’s British. Though he does have some American ancestry - he’s a Mayflower descendant. But of course, everybody everywhere feels they have the authority to opine on U.S. policies. Especially if you’re a Hollywood movie star. That gives one a special helping of wisdom to solve the world’s problems.
Gee, that’s swell. I’m still waiting to hear Carrot Top’s opinion on the Ukraine/Russia relationship.
Oh, man. Don’t confuse Hollywood with the real world . . .
Didn’t he just say yesterday he was the original catalyst for Covid? This guy is so full of himself. Sheesh!
I agree.
No more prisoners. We take them out where they are.
Benedict Cumberbatch? I’m going with the name theory on that one!
He was great in Sherlock...and Black Mass. But I couldn’t care less what he thinks about our defense policy...or *any* of our policies.
Seriously, WHO? Not that is matters.
Exactly. Benedict can shove it.
“it”
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