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Larry Siems

Biography

Larry Siems

Larry Siems is a writer and human rights activist and for many years directed the Freedom to Write program at PEN American Center. He is the author, most recently, of THE TORTURE REPORT: What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program. He lives in New York.

Larry Siems

Books by Larry Siems

Guantánamo Diary
Written by Mohamedou Slahi and edited by Larry Siems - Human Rights, Nonfiction

Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A federal judge ordered his release in March 2010, but the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go. Three years into his captivity, Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody, "his endless world tour" of imprisonment and interrogation, and his daily life as a Guantánamo prisoner.