Fight by New Mexico attorneys to free Guantnamo prisoner focus of new film
By Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Feb 11, 2021 Updated 1 hr ago
Two top New Mexico lawyers wage a legal battle to free a man imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay detention camp following 9/11 in a new movie starring Jodie Foster released Friday in select theaters.
The Mauritanian tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a North African man who spent more than a decade at the controversial military prison in Cuba before his release in 2016 without ever being charged with a crime.
The film, which will be available for home viewing on multiple platforms in March, is based on Slahis bestselling memoir Guantánamo Diary. The story details the abuse he endured at the hands of his jailers at the U.S.-run prison during the George W. Bush administrations war on terror following the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.
Shot primarily in South Africa, the films early moments include scenes of downtown Albuquerque as viewers are introduced to two central characters: tenacious Albuquerque civil rights attorney Nancy Hollander played by Foster and her co-counsel, now Santa Fe-based civil rights attorney Theresa Duncan, played by Shailene Woodley.
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