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The Guardian - UK
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Mansoor Adayfi

For all of us detained at Guantánamo, making art was a lifeline. Why won’t Joe Biden let us keep our work?

A painting of an inmate at Guantanamo reclining on a mattress, by Sabri al-Qurashi.
‘In Guantánamo, from the very beginning, we made art’. A painting by Sabri al-Qurashi. Photograph: Sabri al-Qurashi
Mansoor Adayfi
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Last month, the Pentagon partially lifted the Trump administration’s ban on the release of artwork made by prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Prisoners will be able to take “a practicable quantity of their art” if they are transferred out of the prison. It’s unclear what “practicable” means, and whether this ambiguous term means prisoners will only be allowed to take a small portion of the artwork they have created during years of captivity.

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