PEN-Y-FAN TREK
Event Details
Fundraise for CAGE's work and stand with the oppressed.
Join Moazzam Begg for a trek and get together with friends and explore the vast wilderness and natural beauty of Brecon Beacons, Wales.
Date: Sunday 15th September 2024
Pick up location: Back entrance of East London Mosque (Maryam Centre Side) - 7 Fieldgate St, London E1 1JU
Pick up time: 4:30am
Departure: 4:45am
Trek start time: 10:00am
Registration Fee: £30
Fundraising Target: £300
Speakers
Moazzam Begg
Senior Director
A British-born Muslim, Moazzam Begg is a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner and outreach director for CAGE.
After his release, he became one of the most prominent public-speakers and Muslim advocates for justice and dialogue.
He is the author of the best-seller Enemy Combatant in which he recounts his experience as an innocent man detained and torture at Guantanamo, Bagram and Kandahar.
The Muslim 500 listed him as one of the 500 “most influential Muslims” in the world.
The New Statesman listed him in the top 50 “Heroes of our time”.
He has travelled extensively to investigate state abuses and western complicity in torture including to Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria.
A direct eye-witness to the conflicts in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Syria, his life has been recorded by the Columbia University Oral History project, and the BBC Storyville documentary, The Confession.
Brecon Beacons, Wales