{"id":403,"date":"2020-12-03T10:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/The-Giraffe-Heroes-Blog\/?p=403"},"modified":"2020-12-03T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:45:50","slug":"stick-your-neck-out-for-truth-and-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/2020\/12\/03\/stick-your-neck-out-for-truth-and-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick Your Neck Out for Truth and Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chris, as Mohammed El-Gharani was called in Guantanamo, was taken prisoner as a 14 year old pupil while learning English and IT with his friend&#8217;s uncle in Karachi. Since he had come from Medina the Pakistani authorities sold him for a ransom as a potential Arab terrorist to the American military right after 9\/11 &#8211; who took him to Guantanamo. There he became the most unruly and obtuse inmate of the camp, organizing a defiant struggle for justice and fairness against the brutalizing, torturing guards. His weapon was truth and independence of the mind which he kept up against all odds &#8211; but which kept himself alive as a human being in return. After seven and a half years he was released without charges after more than a year&#8217;s of intervention by Reprieve, a British NGO standing up for the rights of prisoners. Alas, since his release, his odyssey as a stigmatized being, suspiciously eyed upon instead of being admired for what he managed to do, is ongoing. &#8211; We hope time will come when he finally will be able to speak out, gain justice and teach others about what really counts in life; which is Mohammed&#8217;s wish for a legacy of his own.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-spotify wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: After Guant\u00e1namo...\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4fTkKNTAfua2ySg4RYItA3?si=REC4UQd5T46UadxPd3EZcw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can look at the story in his and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Tubiana&#8217;s book with animations by Alexandre Franc: <em>Guantanamo Kid, The  True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani<\/em>, SELFMADEHERO, London 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris, as Mohammed El-Gharani was called in Guantanamo, was taken prisoner as a 14 year old pupil while learning English and IT with his friend&#8217;s uncle in Karachi. Since he had come from Medina the Pakistani authorities sold him for a ransom as a potential Arab terrorist to the American military right after 9\/11 &#8211; who took him to Guantanamo. There he became the most unruly and obtuse inmate of the camp, organizing a defiant struggle for justice and fairness against the brutalizing, torturing guards. His weapon was truth and independence of the mind which he kept up against all <a href=\"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/2020\/12\/03\/stick-your-neck-out-for-truth-and-independence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,34,48],"tags":[123,57,124],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giraffe","category-human-rights-civil-disobedience-courage-honesty","category-politics","tag-guantanamo","tag-human-rights","tag-powerr-of-the-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}