Oral history interview with Moazzam Begg, 2011.

Biographical Note

Director, Cageprisoners.

Scope and Contents

Born: 1968, Birmingham, UK; education: BA., University of Wolverhampton; career: activist, aid-worker, author, speaker, director of Cageprisoners; career focus: rendition, torture, rule of law, discussions: racism and xenophobia, War on Terror, detention at Guantanamo Bay, effects of detention on family relationships, Irish and Muslim experience as criminalized minorities in United Kingdom, extra-judicial killing, Arab spring, United Kingdom coalition government, justice; reminiscences: return from Guantanamo, choosing to enter public life.

Subjects

• Begg, Moazzam--Interviews.
• Cageprisoners (Organization)
• Cageprisoners (Organization)--Employees--Interviews.
• Detention of persons--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Guantánamo Bay oral history project.
• Human rights workers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Islam and world politics--21st century.
• Minorities--Civil rights--Great Britain.
• Muslims--Civil rights.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prisoners of war--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Tharoor, Kanishk, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Social aspects.

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