Documentary Filmmaker: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
From the Blog newsSharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: I always enjoy being the first one a fairly apt statement issued by Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, while discussing her soon to be released feature-length animated picture, 3 Bahadur . The production which will be Pakistans first animated feature film is being created by Waadi Animations, and will be a joint venture between ARY Films andpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Preventing Torture
From the Blog iabhopal After all the battles over redaction in the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report, we should keep one thing in mind: this is not, primarily, a battle over information. Having sat for many years across many tables from many of the ‘folks’ the US tortured in the global ‘war on terror,’ men like Murat Kurnaz and Mohammed al-Qatani, and having heard first-hand their stories of being beaten, hung from ceilings, sexually assaulted, exposed to extreme temperatures, deprived of sleep, and subjected to numerous other brutal acts, my colleagues and I at the Center for Constitutional Rights can assure you: the important thing about the torture report is not just what we learn from it — it is what we do about it. Discussing the report at a news conference last summer, after acknowlpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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