Peirce, Gareth - short clip - BritishInvolvementinMoazzamBegg'sKidnappingandDetention

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	(marker scratching)	0:00
	(keyboard keys clicking)	0:04
	(distant gentle music)	0:08
-	January the 31st, 2002,	0:18
	I had a telephone call	0:24
	from a friend of his in Birmingham	0:29
	to say that Moazzam had, with his wife,	0:33
	managed to escape from the invasion of Afghanistan	0:38
	and settle in Pakistan	0:42
	where they were living.	0:45
	And that men had come to his house	0:47
	and kidnapped him,	0:51
	and they had not taken his phone.	0:54
	And I think from the boot of a car	0:57
	he had managed to telephone his father in England.	1:00
	And so it was within hours of that I	1:06
	heard what had happened and immediately got in touch	1:13
	with the foreign office to say,	1:18
	"A British citizen has been kidnapped in Pakistan,	1:21
	"Would you please intervene with the Pakistani authorities?"	1:26
	And for the next nine months to 12 months	1:33
	the British authorities steadfastly maintained	1:41
	that they could get no information.	1:46
	He managed to get a message from the Red Cross	1:49
	to say that he was in Bagram Air Base.	1:55
	So he had been subject to rendition.	1:59
	He had been entirely unlawfully kidnapped in Pakistan.	2:02
	Habeas corpus proceedings were initiated in Pakistan.	2:09
	Every ministry, everywhere I looked into authority	2:13
	said that they did not have him.	2:17
	And then a letter came through the Red Cross	2:20
	from Bagram to his father.	2:25
	Throughout that year I went with his father	2:30
	to the foreign office here to demand	2:33
	that they intervene for him.	2:37
	And they maintained they had no information.	2:40
	They put that in writing.	2:45
	They told it to our face.	2:47
	And it was not until	2:51
	post Rasul v. Bush in the U.S. Supreme Court,	2:56
	post the	3:02
	ability of lawyers to go into Guantanamo	3:05
	and find out from the detainees	3:08
	something of their history,	3:12
	it was only then that we discovered	3:14
	that the British had been throughout,	3:17
	the British had tipped off the Americans	3:19
	where he was living in Pakistan.	3:23
	British had been there when he was first interrogated,	3:28
	still in Pakistan with the Americans.	3:31
	The British were there in Bagram.	3:35
	The British were there in Guantanamo.	3:38

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Title:

Peirce, Gareth - short clip - BritishInvolvementinMoazzamBegg'sKidnappingandDetention

Date:

June 15, 2013

Interviewer:

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Interviewee:

Peirce, Gareth

Role:

Detainee Attorney

Description:

This interview may include descriptions of violence.
Detainee Attorney
Gareth Peirce, female, age 73, is a human rights attorney representing those accused of terrorist activity, including British citizens Moazzam Begg and Shakar Aamer.
Description was provided by Witness to Guantanamo.

Subject:

United Kingdom

Format:

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Language:

English

Extent:

1:11:14

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Peirce, Gareth - short clip - BritishInvolvementinMoazzamBegg'sKidnappingandDetention

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