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Cageprisoners and Together present:
Captivated: The Art of the Interned
Monday 16th June - Friday 4th July 2008
VENUE: Together, 12 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BE Nearest Tube: Barbican
Gallery opening hours 9am-5pm
Since the start of the global War on Terror, there has been a systematic removal of human rights and civil liberties through seemingly legal processes. These include:
Control Orders
Special Immigration Appeals Commission
Extradition
Detention without charge, having been deemed illegal by the highest court in the UK, has once again been established through alternative counter-terrorism measures reliant on secret evidence, to keep individuals detained and threatened with deportation to torture.
Cageprisoners and Together: working for well being are hosting a unique art exhibition, comprising the works of those men, detained without trial in the UK, to highlight the mental health concerns and the hidden human tragedy taking place, all in the name of security.
EXHIBITION LAUNCH
Monday 16th June
6:30-9:30pm
Speakers Include:
Moazzam Begg, Cageprisoners spokesman and former detainee
Victoria Brittain, Journalist and Playwright
Cerie Bullivant, Former control order detainee
Baronness Helena Kennedy, Barrister and writer
Gareth Peirce, Lawyer for detainees
Yvonne Ridley, Author and broadcaster
Manjinder Virk, Actress
Please note: Spaces are limited to 150 people. Please book places in advance.
For further information: contact@cageprisoners.com / 07973 264197 / www.cageprisoners.com
abu eeman
01-05-08, 02:41 PM
Salaam please show your support if anything at lease make dua for your muslim brothers and sisters
O Allah! For You is all praise - You are the Light of the Heavens and the Earth and all that is in them. O Allah raise the standing of Islam and the Muslims, and degrade the standing of kufr and the kaafireen and shirk and the mushrikeen. Destroy the enemies of the Deen and protect the lands of Islam. O Allah! Grant victory to Your religion, Your book and the sunnah of Your Prophet and Your slaves. To You we complain of our weakness, our failure and our shame before the people. O Most Merciful, You are the Lord of the weak and oppressed. O Allah America came with her army and iron, with her oppression and arrogance, she came to challenge You and deny Your Messenger and to slaughter the weak and oppressed believers in Iraq and Afghanistan. O Allah bring about what You promised them! O Allah we seek Your protection and Your promise. O Allah bring down Your help and support, You are our Helper and Supporter. O Allah grant aid and victory to the Mujahideen wherever they are. Our Lord pour upon them patience! O Allah! Break free the shackles of our prisoners and return them to their families safely. O Allah! They are in urgent need of Your Mercies, so send upon them Your Mercies! O Allah! Whoever has harmed them, then harm him, and whoever has shown enmity to them, then show enmity to them. O Allah! Rectify the affairs of the Muslims in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sheeshan and wherever they may be. O Allah! Do not grant a disbeliever any way to harm us. O Allah! We seek refuge in You from a bad decree, being taken over by misery, the gloats of the enemies, and the pains of afflictions, and we seek refuge in You from the disliked manners, deeds, desires and diseases. O Allah! Grant us security in our lands, and continue to bless us with peace and settlement there. O Ever-Living! O Self-Subsisting and Supporter of all! By Your Mercy we seek assistance, rectify for us all of our affairs and do not leave us to ourselves ever for the blink of an eye or less than that. All praises are to Allah Lord of the worlds and send Your prayers, peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad and on his family, companions and followers. ALLAHUMMA AMEEN ALLAHUMMA AMEEN ALLAHUMMA AMEE
'After a while everyone will forget we exist'
www.Prisonersoffaith.wordpress.com
Salaam please show your support if anything at lease make dua for your muslim brothers and sisters
O Allah! For You is all praise - You are the Light of the Heavens and the Earth and all that is in them. O Allah raise the standing of Islam and the Muslims, and degrade the standing of kufr and the kaafireen and shirk and the mushrikeen. Destroy the enemies of the Deen and protect the lands of Islam. O Allah! Grant victory to Your religion, Your book and the sunnah of Your Prophet and Your slaves. To You we complain of our weakness, our failure and our shame before the people. O Most Merciful, You are the Lord of the weak and oppressed. O Allah America came with her army and iron, with her oppression and arrogance, she came to challenge You and deny Your Messenger and to slaughter the weak and oppressed believers in Iraq and Afghanistan. O Allah bring about what You promised them! O Allah we seek Your protection and Your promise. O Allah bring down Your help and support, You are our Helper and Supporter. O Allah grant aid and victory to the Mujahideen wherever they are. Our Lord pour upon them patience! O Allah! Break free the shackles of our prisoners and return them to their families safely. O Allah! They are in urgent need of Your Mercies, so send upon them Your Mercies! O Allah! Whoever has harmed them, then harm him, and whoever has shown enmity to them, then show enmity to them. O Allah! Rectify the affairs of the Muslims in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sheeshan and wherever they may be. O Allah! Do not grant a disbeliever any way to harm us. O Allah! We seek refuge in You from a bad decree, being taken over by misery, the gloats of the enemies, and the pains of afflictions, and we seek refuge in You from the disliked manners, deeds, desires and diseases. O Allah! Grant us security in our lands, and continue to bless us with peace and settlement there. O Ever-Living! O Self-Subsisting and Supporter of all! By Your Mercy we seek assistance, rectify for us all of our affairs and do not leave us to ourselves ever for the blink of an eye or less than that. All praises are to Allah Lord of the worlds and send Your prayers, peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad and on his family, companions and followers. ALLAHUMMA AMEEN ALLAHUMMA AMEEN ALLAHUMMA AMEE
'After a while everyone will forget we exist'
www.Prisonersoffaith.wordpress.com
Walaikum salam.
Ameen!
:jkk:
Jazaaku-Allah khayr for sharing this.
May Allah break free the shackles of all muslim prisoners, ameen!
Less than 20 places remaining for launch - book now!
Cageprisoners and Together present:
Captivated: The Art of the Interned
Monday 16th June - Friday 4th July 2008
VENUE: Together, 12 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BE Nearest Tube: Barbican
Gallery opening hours 9am-5pm
Since the start of the global War on Terror, there has been a systematic removal of human rights and civil liberties through seemingly legal processes. These include:
Control Orders
Special Immigration Appeals Commission
Extradition
Detention without charge, having been deemed illegal by the highest court in the UK, has once again been established through alternative counter-terrorism measures reliant on secret evidence, to keep individuals detained and threatened with deportation to torture.
Cageprisoners and Together: working for well being are hosting a unique art exhibition, comprising the works of those men, detained without trial in the UK, to highlight the mental health concerns and the hidden human tragedy taking place, all in the name of security.
EXHIBITION LAUNCH
Monday 16th June
6:30-9:30pm
Speakers Include:
Moazzam Begg, Cageprisoners spokesman and former detainee
Victoria Brittain, Journalist and Playwright
Cerie Bullivant, Former control order detainee
Baronness Helena Kennedy, Barrister and writer
Gareth Peirce, Lawyer for detainees
Yvonne Ridley, Author and broadcaster
Manjinder Virk, Actress
Please note: Spaces are limited to 150 people. Please book places in advance.
For further information: contact@cageprisoners.com / 07973 264197 / www.cageprisoners.com
I wish I was in London! This is a 'Museum type' exhibition including photgraphs letters and other objects?
Press Release:
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Event: Detention Without Trial Art Exhibition Opens Tonight
16th June 2008
With the first arrests in 2001, the UK has quickly fallen into the trap of enforcing legislation in a bid to tackle suspected terrorism. Despite numerous statements that “our values” will not be changed by the terrorists; the country now finds itself in a position where detention without charge is prevalent through various forms of legislation.
After extended media demonization of those detained for reasons related to suspected terrorism, it is important that policies behind such detentions be exposed. Every time a plot is uncovered or an individual is detained there is very little in the way of evidence that is produced, however media headlines are always extreme. Acquittals do not gain any media attention and those once demonised are left to be tarnished by an unfair process which is used to emphasise the climate of fear.
Cageprisoners and Together are hosting the exhibition Captivated: The Art of the Interned to redress the balance within the public. By using the artwork and poetry of those detained, the exhibition aims to help raise awareness about the problematic nature of counter-terrorism detention in the UK and also seeks to humanise those detained beyond the guilty before proven innocent image they have obtained through the media.
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 17th June 2008 – Friday 4th July 2008
Venue: Together, 12 Old Street , Barbican, London , EC1V 9BE
Launch: Monday 16th June 2008
Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Speakers:
Moazzam Begg – former Guantanamo detainee
Terry Waite CBE
Victoria Britain – journalist and author
Gareth Peirce – human rights lawyer
Cerie Bullivant – former control order detainee
Manjinder Virk – star of drama ‘Britz’
Lawrence Archer – juror in the ricin trial
Note: Places for the private launch must be reserved by emailing contact@cageprisoners.com
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Cageprisoners is a human rights organisation that exists to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainee s h eld as part of the War on Terror. We aim to give a voice to the voiceless.
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Contact: Moazzam Begg
Email: moazzam.begg@cageprisoners.com
Number: 0044 (0) 7875090494
HiBiScUs
16-06-08, 09:43 PM
I went to the launch today and I thought that it was really good, it was really nice to gain an insight into the state of mind of many of the detainees, and it was a reminder that we should all try to do our best to help in some way.
Syed Haider
I’m sitting in De Santis, a small stylish coffee shop opposite the gallery. The owner (I find out later) has been kind enough to give me a coffee on the house as I was short of change and their minimum cost for card payments is ₤10. I am not, I must confess, in the habit of garnering freebies from people I hardly know, but something compels me to write this review now, almost as if the emotions and the thoughts will suddenly vanish as I board the underground and travel homewards.
As if the feelings – right now so intense – will evaporate as the mundane everyday world around me corrodes them and pulls me in once more to the robotic monotony of “normality”. It is precisely that normality, that humdrum existence in which one is oblivious of the horrors that occur around us which Captivated (“The Art of the Interned”) looks to disrupt.
Mounted on the walls were evocative bios of a number of “detainees” and their artwork; from a mosque built of matchsticks to poems of caged birds and the loss of justice. Walking around, reading and looking at what was on display felt odd at first. What was I doing here? What was the purpose of showing us these? Eerie though some of it was and deeply moving no doubt, what was I to learn from seeing these things? And then, from somewhere, a thought occurred to me; is this to ‘humanise’ the individuals caught in a legal maze that retained the right to make and change the rules of the ‘game’ at will.
As I write the word ‘humanise’ I recall Mozzam Beg’s curt retort – “Humanise?” he said, “Are they [the detainees] animals that need humanizing?” – I believe he has a point. I suppose if the exhibition hoped to ‘humanise’ terror suspects, such an aim speaks merely of the degree to and the speed with which our media and its authorizing discourses shamefully blinker our minds. We who are uninvolved in the campaigns – sympathizers no doubt – the occasional attendees of such exhibitions and lectures; we who may look at newsreels and react with a profound ambivalence, are living proof of the need for efforts like Captivated.
It is you and I who are in need of being constantly awakened and critically positioned to our ‘reality’. That would be success enough for such an exhibition, and I think for me that is what happened as I walked around the buzz of people – a good turn out – looking at and reading the material on display. What I experienced was an acute sense of cognitive dissonance. How was I to compute the voices coming forth from the works? Who were these people that had experienced in the same country in which I lived such absurd and extreme acts? Who was I? I, who am so comfortable intellectualizing the world and purporting to dissect its more intricate workings? What I do affords me a comfortable distance from the perturbations of everyday life – my ivory tower may well be a refuge, I realised. And what kind of country is this in which I, so comfortable in some ways, and others, so distressed and systematically harassed, can coexist.
Such tumultuous conflicts, then, were aroused by what I saw, read, and heard (invited speakers delivered short messages/speeches towards the end of the evening). In the end I suppose I remember best that Mosque made so immaculately of matches, and I think that there could be no symbol more apt. For those ‘inside’ and those incarcerated ‘outside’, it speaks of the fragile presence of faith, and for others like myself, the powerful but fragile blinkers which events like these disrupt and ignite. My thoughts then, as I hand over my empty cup, thank the owner and walk out with the sound of the door being locked behind me: an excellent exhibition, in fact, we need more of them.
Source (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25116)
HiBiScUs
22-06-08, 04:49 PM
Really good article mashallah. I was also having trouble capturing a feeling in the exhibition, so its funny, im not the only one. But hes put it into words really nicely.
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