School of Law Co-Sponsors "Witnessing Guantanamo"

The UC Davis School of Law is co-sponsoring "Witnessing Guantanamo: Amy Goodman Speaks with Former Detainees," a videoconference from Sudan with three former Guantanamo Bay detainees who will talk for to a U.S. audience about their prison experiences at a May 31 benefit for the Guantanamo Testimonials Project, a UC Davis-based effort to catalog accounts of prisoner abuse around the world.

The event will take place at 8 p.m. in the Sciences Lecture Hall at UC Davis. Tickets are $10.

The former detainees—Adel Hasan Hamad, Salim Adam, and Hammad Ali Amno Gad Allah—will be interviewed by Amy Goodman, executive producer and host of the independent news program "Democracy Now!" Goodman has won numerous journalism awards, including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting.

The event is organized by the UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas and is co-sponsored by the UC Davis Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, the UC Davis School of Law, the UC Davis Muslim Student Association, the UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program and the American Civil Liberties Union of Yolo County. The former detainees' participation in the videoconference was arranged by Isma'il Kushkush, a UC Davis graduate who is now working as a journalist for Islam Online.

Seating is limited, so those planning to attend are encouraged to buy tickets early. Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone at (530) 752-1915, and in person at the Freeborn Hall box office on the UC Davis campus or the Davis Farmers Market.