Understanding Prison
The MENA Prison Forum is dedicated to researching prison culture in the MENA region. The interdisciplinary, international network includes former prisoners, filmmakers, academics and activists from various countries. Together with medico international and HAU, the organisers are presenting parts of their work as a series of events at HAU which takes place instead of a conference planned for December 2023.
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MENA Prison Forum in Berlin #2
In the second edition of the series, its creators present the “ISIS Prisons Museum”, which was recently published after years of forensic work. The virtual museum uses digital technologies to document the sites of ISIS crimes. It combines digital online storytelling by former prisoners with exhibitions to raise public awareness of the crimes of ISIS and to support survivors.
The subsequent discussion with German human rights lawyer Wolfgang Kaleck (ECCHR) will focus on the US occupation, which is also a chapter in the long history of torture and human rights violations in Iraqi prisons. In 2006, Kaleck filed a complaint with the Attorney General against the then US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking Pentagon executives. The accusation: war crimes and serious human rights violations against the prisoners in Abu Ghraib. The talk takes a look back while at the same time asking about the significance of Abu Ghraib today.
Performance and presentation “ISIS Prisons Museum” with Amer Matar and others
- Arabic and English with German and English simultaneous translation
“From Mosul to Abu Ghraib: conversation about prison, torture and accountability in Iraq”
- Wolfgang Kaleck in conversation with Katja Maurer
- German with English simultaneous translation
approx. 120 minutes
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A cooperation by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, medico international, MENA Prison Forum, UMAM D&R, Prisons Museum, ECCHR.
Dates
February 2025
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