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Inside Guantanamo Bay detention centre

Interview within the framework of the World Forum of Democracy
4'25'' 18 November 2015 Council of Europe Strasbourg

French citizen Mourad Benchellali was captured in Pakistan and transported to the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba, where he spent more than three years. Now completely exonerated of any terrorist activities, he explains in this interview what life was like in Guantanamo and why he is now campaigning against radicalisation of young people in France and elsewhere.


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