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Former Guantánamo Prisoners Ask Biden to Let Them Keep Art They Made to “Escape” Inhumane Conditions

In Part 2 of our interview, former Guantanamo detainee Mansoor Adayfi discusses how he and others who have been released want Biden to let them keep the artwork they produced during their years in captivity.

In Part 2 of our interview with former Guantanamo detainee Mansoor Adayfi, he discusses how he and others who have been released are calling on Biden to let them keep the artwork they produced during their years in captivity, and what the art means to them. The current policy lifts Trump’s complete ban, but the formerly detained men can only take “a practicable quantity of their art.” “Art actually connected you to yourself, to your memories, to who you are. It was our secret way to escape the pain… of being in prison,” says Adayfi. “What is the right for the government to hold the art?” he asks.


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