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Gerry Conlon talks to Cageprisoners about the plight of Shaker Aamer
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On the day that Gerry Conlon died, CAGE is republishing this interview conducted with him in 2010.
As one of the 'Guildford Four' Gerry Conlon was wrongfully imprisoned as an IRA bomber in 1974. It took 16 years before his conviction was quashed in 1989 and he was released. His case was one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in English legal history.Conlon's autobiography Proved Innocent was adapted into the Oscar and BAFTA Award-nominated 1993 film In The Name of the Father. Here he speaks to Cageprisoners' patron Yvonne Ridley about why he's fighting for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo
<p><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On the day that Gerry Conlon died, CAGE is republishing this interview conducted with him in 2010.</strong><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As one of the 'Guildford Four' Gerry Conlon was wrongfully imprisoned as an IRA bomber in 1974. It took 16 years before his conviction was quashed in 1989 and he was released. His case was one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in English legal history.Conlon's autobiography Proved Innocent was adapted into the Oscar and BAFTA Award-nominated 1993 film In The Name of the Father. Here he speaks to Cageprisoners' patron Yvonne Ridley about why he's fighting for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/LxGsk1rN1l0" width="420"></iframe></p>
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Gerry Conlon talks to Cageprisoners about the plight of Shaker Aamer
Interviews
Gerry Conlon talks to Cageprisoners about the plight of Shaker Aamer
Interviews