Guantanamo - Talk By James Yusuf Yee

Date: Fri Nov 14
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Venue: LCT 1, Appleton Tower, George Square Edinburgh

After serving as the Muslim Chaplain at Guantanamo Bay for ten months and receiving numerous awards for his service there, Chaplain Yee was falsely accused of spying, espionage, and aiding alleged Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners. He was arrested, locked in a navy prison for 76 days in solitary confinement, subject to much of the same treatment that had been imposed on Guantanamo detainees.

Now cleared and exonerated of all criminal charges, he has publicly exposed the abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and the failures of US military justice. He resigned from the Army in 2005 with honorable discharge. Since his resignation from the US army in 2005, he has exposed what really goes on at Guantanamo, and tells the world about how he struggled to prove his innocence. He authored "For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire" in 2005

Organised by the Islamic Society of Edinburgh University