An Algerian doctor joins the small list of former Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been transferred to Albania. “Abu Mohammed” is trapped in a legal limbo that prevents him from being reunited with the family he last saw in 2001. Report from Tirana for BBC News, May 2007
Albanian fix for Guantanamo dilemma
August 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
An investigation into the US policy of arranging asylum in Albania for former Guantanamo Bay detainees. The men were forbidden under American law from being repatriated to their countries on account of the risk that they would be mistreated there. Impoverished Albania stepped in to accommodate them. I nicknamed this practice, “extraordinary rehabilitation”. Report from Tirana for BBC News, January 2007
Guantanamo Uighurs’ strange odyssey
August 24, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The extraordinary tale of a group of Uighurs from western China who were captured in Afghanistan, imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, and resettled in Albania. I tracked the men down while on holiday in the Balkans. Report from Tirana for BBC News, January 2007
Sarajevo massacre survivor speaks
August 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Interview from Sarajevo with Esad Pozder – market trader and witness to a mortar attack that killed more than 60 people. BBC News, March 2006
Turning the camera back on Vietnam
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Legendary Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths talks about embedding and censorship from Vietnam to Abu Ghraib. Interview for BBC News, April 2005
An angry photographer in Chechnya
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Stanley Greene describes why it is becoming more dangerous to document the conflict in Chechnya. Interview for BBC News, March 2005
UK lifeline for boy victim of Iraq blast
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An Iraqi schoolboy recovers in Britain from an explosion that left him severely disabled. BBC News, December 2004
Moscow’s Afghan war: The English mujahid
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Jason Elliot wrote An Unexpected Light – an enchanting portrait of Afghanistan. Here, he looks back on his early visits to the country during the Soviet occupation. Interview for BBC News, December 2004
Falluja siege interviews
August 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment
A series of interviews with Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist in Falluja, led to this diary-style account of the US assault on the city. Badrani was living behind rebel lines. I spoke to him over the phone from London and wrote the English text for the BBC News website. Translation was courtesy of the BBC Arabic service.
Farewell to Falluja, 24 November 2004
Fear remains after assault, 16 November 2004
Ghost city calls for help, 13 November 2004
Smoke and corpses, 11 November 2004
Defiance amid carnage, 10 November 2004
Watching tragedy engulf my city, 9 November 2004
Taking cover in Falluja, 8 November 2004
Epic Journey to End Cycle of War
June 22, 2011 by Leave a Comment
An encounter with Nadir Shah, the intrepid Afghan cyclist who was making his way to New York on a bicycle that behaved like a “stubborn goat”.
- Interview for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting in early 2003 (incorrect date-stamp on IWPR website).
Neil Arun 