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NPP reading looks at Guantánamo detainees
This week’s play reading by the New Provincetown Players presents, “Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom,” directed by Deborah Peabody. The reading is at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at The Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford St. in Provincetown. Tickets are $5 at the door.
The play highlights the Bush administration’s treatment of detainees who are held without legal representation or charges indefinitely. The stories are told through testimony and interviews with four detainees, three Britons and one Iraqi national who had been living in Britain legally for 21 years. Three of the four have since been released.
The performance of this award winning play is part of a nationwide effort organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee to highlight the situation at Guantánamo. The moving first-hand accounts recreated in the play put a human face on the legal struggle that CCR has been fighting to get the detainees their day in court. Showing the often horrific conditions the detainees have faced at Guantánamo, this production of the play also brings attention to the Bush Administration’s flagrant disregard of the Supreme Court’s decision which ruled that the detainees have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. Further information about the Guantánamo Reading Project can be found at www.ccr-ny.org/gac.
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Feb 1st, 2007