Tutu in anti-Guantanamo theatre

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BBC News

By Jeremy Cooke
BBC, New York



Archbishop Tutu will answer audience questions after the show

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to appear in a New York off-Broadway play highly critical of the US handling of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
He will take part in two productions of "Guantanamo - honour-bound to defend freedom", over the weekend.

He will play Lord Justice Stein, a judge who questions the legal justification of the detention regime.

Once a leading campaigner against apartheid, Archbishop Tutu is a vocal critic of the Guantanamo system.

Now he is taking the unusual step of agreeing to take part in a play which portrays the plight of the British nationals being held without trial along with hundreds of others suspected of being linked with terror organisations including al-Qaeda.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3709288.stm

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1. A great man

The Archbishop is a living saint.
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2. kick for Tutu

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