The Road to Guantanamo

The Road to Guantanamo is an award-winning documentary about three British friends who travel to Pakistan to attend a wedding just days after the September 11 attacks. While in Pakistan, they decide to visit war-torn Afghanistan to see what is really happening in the neighbouring country.

During their journey, they take the wrong bus and end up in the middle of a conflict zone. Of Bangladeshi and Pakistani ancestry, the trio are captured by Northern Alliance soldiers and held for a month at a US Army stockade. American soldiers regularly interrogate them and, at times, beat them before declaring them ‘enemy combatants’. They are then sent to Guantanamo Bay, where they are held for more than two years. During this time, they are tortured, largely held in isolation, and routinely interrogated, all without legal representation. Eventually, they are released without charge and returned to Britain.