The torture of suspected "communists" in THE ATTORNEY will no doubt bring to mind the very recent revelations regarding the "black site" discovered in Chicago (a place where suspected drug dealers/religious extremists/etc. were taken and tortured), as well as the facts uncovered and made known in MURDER AT CAMP DELTA, by Joseph Hickman.
In Canton, Mississippi, a fearless young lawyer and his assistant defend a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, inciting violent retribution and revenge from the Ku Klux Klan. Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey.
Dec 27, 2016 · There are other films whose torture scenes are pretty tough but I personally didn't like on the whole.: "Snuff 102 (2008), Srpski film (2010), Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975), The Human Centipede (2009)"
These 14 movies about wrongful convictions will make you enraged, and wanting to fight for justice more than ever. Most of the time, wrongful conviction stories leave …
The Mauritanian is a 2021 legal drama film based on the ostensibly true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian man who was held for fourteen years (from 2002 to 2016) without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a United States military prison.
A defence attorney, her associate, and a military prosecutor uncover a far-reaching conspiracy while investigating the case of a suspected 9/11 terrorist imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for six years.The Mauritanian / Film synopsis
After a friend's son is abducted and tortured, a tax attorney becomes the defense lawyer for a group of young men in a case against the government.The Attorney / Film synopsis
Mohamedou Ould SlahiThe Mauritanian is based on the 2015 memoir Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi. What happened after Slahi was brought to Guantánamo? At Guantánamo, American intelligence officers believed that Slahi was linked to 9/11 from several angles; a prosecutor even labelled him the “Forrest Gump” of the terror plot.Jun 14, 2021
Since 2002, 779 Muslim men and boys have been held at Guantánamo, nearly all of them without charge or trial. Today, 39 men remain indefinitely detained there, and 27 of them have never even been charged with any crime. Fourteen of those 27 have been cleared for transfer or release, some for years.Jan 11, 2022
He was given no apology, no compensation; a medical officer simply said, “760, I declare you fit to fly,” and he was marched blindfolded and earmuffed on to a military plane, just as he had been when first taken there.Feb 14, 2021
The film is based on the true life story of Roh Moo-Hyun, ex-president of South Korea, who was well known for his human rights activist career as attorney.
SYNOPSIS: The Attorney (original title: Byeonhoin) is a 2013 South Korean drama film based on a true story of Roh Moo-hyun, the ninth president of the Republic of Korea, who was well known for his human rights activist career as attorney.Nov 7, 2014
Keeping the film, shot primarily in South Africa, authentic also meant incorporating incongruous details from Gitmo's Cuban home, such as nearby idyllic ocean waves with surfers, prison signs protecting the iguanas – and that gift shop.Feb 13, 2021
The United States assumed territorial control over the southern portion of Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Lease. The United States exercises jurisdiction and control over this territory, while recognizing that Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty.
In historical times Mauritania was settled by sub-Saharan peoples and by the Ṣanhājah Imazighen (Berbers). The region was the cradle of the Amazigh (singular of Imazighen) Almoravids, a puritanical 11th-century Islamic reform movement that spread an austere form of Islam from the Sahara through to North Africa.