Magamed Abubakarow, a young lawyer from the Karbado-Balkaria (Russian Federation), is defending Rasul Kudajew. Kudajew is a former prisoner of Guantanamo released with no charges in 2004. A year later the Russian authorities arrested and charged him with taking part in a rebel raid on government buildings in the small Caucasus-republic – using evidence of a interrogation that left Kudajew looking rather mangeled. Read Rasul Kudajew’s story here and watch the interview (4min) with Magamed Abubakarow here.
I shot and edited the interview for Amnesty’s campaign to help victims of torture , translation by Hartmut Schröder.
Amnesty International – Interview M. Abubakarow
June 30, 2009Freedom not Fear
October 18, 2008A little piece i did for ver.di‘s Streik.TV about last week’s ‘Freedom not Fear’-demo in Berlin.
Kreuzberg Cuts
July 1, 2008
Spartacus
June 23, 2008
Do inmates make good actors? No doubt. JVA Tegel, Europe’s biggest all-male prison, has been running a theatre-group for the last decade. Twice a year Peter Atanassow and other directors produce a play with about 20 of the 1,800 inmates. Last week they premiered Howard Fast’s ‘Spartacus’ – which, in its rawness & setting, was a more arresting experience than watching Kubrick’s classic version for the big screen. And meeting the actors afterwards at the buffet was equally heartwarming and impressive.
The video i produced for ZEITonline is a collabo with ZEIT-writer Markus Zinsmaier.
Qualle
June 7, 2008
