Guantánamo Diary, Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s account of his rendition and torture by the US, is being made into a film by the producers behind director Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone and United 93, according to Deadline.
Lloyd Levin and Michael Bronner have optioned the rights to Slahi’s book, which details the “enhanced interrogation” techniques he was subjected to during his 13–year imprisonment in Guantánamo. Slahi, a Mauritanian native who had previously admitted to participating in anti–communist jihad in Afghanistan, was taken captive by the US in 2002. He was subjected to racist and religious abuse, periodic beatings and sleep deprivation. He had his food restricted and was kept in isolation.
The US has failed to link him to any of the acts of terrorism they accused him of and Slahi is being held without trail under the Authorisation for the Use of Military Force act. The 44-year-old was granted a release order in 2010, which was overturned by the justice department. He remains in Guantánamo.
Slahi’s account of life inside the prison camp, the first to be published by a current Guantánamo inmate, was serialised in the Guardian in January. The book took six years to reach publication after Slahi’s handwritten 466–page draft was stamped Secret and Noforn (Not to be shared with foreign nationals or intelligence services) by the US authorities.
