Please join us for the Academy Award Winning Documentary Screening of
"Taxi to the Dark Side"
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 9:30 a.m.
Location: San Diego City College, Room D121A1313 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101
Cost: Free
This event is co hosted with the Amnesty International Club at City College

In 2002 taxi driver Dilawar was picked up by US forces with his passengers in the desert and taken to Bagram prison in Afghanistan. Five days later he was dead. Injuries to his legs were compared with those he would have sustained if he had been run over by a truck – had he lived it was likely that his legs would have had to have been amputated due to the damage. With this as the starting point, this documentary tells the story of the role of "torture" in the war on terror, from Abu Ghraid to Guantanamo

Check out this article on the potential release of Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay:

After nearly 7 years at Guantanamo, Chinese Muslims set to be freed this week are told to wait
By HOPE YEN Associated Press Writer
8:14 AM EDT, October 9, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) _ A group of Chinese Muslims set to be freed into the U.S. this week from Guantanamo Bay found their freedom stymied yet again after a simple government plea: What's a couple more weeks or so in jail after nearly seven years?That in essence was the Bush administration's argument to a federal appeals court in a 19-page emergency request that maintained there would be only "minimal harms" if the detainees were to stay at Guantanamo a while longer.Late Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed, halting the 17 men's release for at least another week to give the government more time to make arguments in the case.

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