Guantanamo .co.uk - About the author

David Rose is a writer and investigative journalist.

His awards include the David Watt Memorial Prize and the One World award for human rights journalism.

His work regularly appears in The Observer and Vanity Fair.

Among his books are In the Name of the Law, a widely-praised examination of the British criminal justice system [buy from Amazon.co.uk]; and A Climate of Fear, an investigation of the Broadwater Farm case and the conviction of Winston Silcott [buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk].

He has also written books on mountaineering, including Regions of the Heart [buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk], a biography of Alison Hargreaves, the British climber who died in her attempt to conquer K2, and he is working on a book about the US death penalty centred on a miscarriage of justice in the town of Columbus, Georgia.

He lives in Oxford with his family.

Previous articles written by David on Guantanamo Bay and related topics:

Scandal of force-fed prisoners: The Observer, 8 January 2006
New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay are being tied down and force-fed through tubes pushed down their nasal passages into their stomachs to keep them alive.

MI6 and CIA 'sent student to Morocco to be tortured': The Observer, 11 December, 2005
An Ethiopian student who lived in London claims that he was brutally tortured with the involvement of British and US intelligence agencies.

'I'm being cheated of my life': The Observer, 4 December, 2005
'This is my day,' said Kenny Richey. 'My day is nothing. My cell is 10ft by 7ft, and I'm in it 23 hours a day. It does have a TV, but right now it's bust, and they don't seem in much of a hurry to get it fixed. The window is three inches wide, but I keep it covered. I can't bear to see the outside and not be part of it. I can't walk on grass or breathe fresh air, so I block the view with wet toilet paper. I can't tell you when I last looked at a tree: it was so long ago.

Guantanamo inmates to lose all rights: The Observer, 13 November, 2005
Human rights campaigners are calling it the 'November surprise' - a last-minute amendment smuggled into a Pentagon finance bill in the US Senate last Thursday.

How Ashes triumph could save the 'last Brit' in Guantanamo: The Observer, 25 September, 2005
They call him 'the Australian Taliban,' the ranch hand captured by Northern Alliance fighters in Afghanistan in December 2001. Now a casual comment about cricket may save him from life imprisonment in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison. David Hicks qualifies as being Camp Delta's last Brit.

Beatings, sex abuse and torture: how MI5 left me to rot in US jail: The Observer, 27 February 2005
The security service MI5 turned down a recommendation by American intelligence that it try to recruit a British prisoner as an agent in the war against terror and instead consigned him to three years' detention in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay...

Guantanamo Briton 'in handcuff torture': The Observer, 6 February 2005
British intelligence officials played a crucial part in the secret abduction of UK citizen Martin Mubanga to Guantanamo Bay. There, he reveals today in an exclusive interview, he endured 33 months of ill-treatment and often abusive interrogation.

How I entered the hellish world of Guantanamo Bay: The Observer, 6 February 2005
Martin Mubanga can date the low point of his 33 months at Guantánamo Bay: 15 June, 2004. That sweltering Cuban morning, he was taken from the cellblock he was sharing with speakers of the Afghan language Pashto, none of whom knew English...

Guantanamo Briton 'in handcuff torture': The Observer, 2 January 2005
David Rose on the allegation that a British detainee was suspended by his wrists as punishment for reciting the Koran while in US military custody.

Rule of violence: The Observer, 3 October 2004
Inside Camp Delta, the British former Guantánamo prisoner Shafiq Rasul told me: 'There's only one rule that matters. You have to obey whatever US government personnel tell you to do.'

The real truth about Camp Delta: The Observer, 3 October 2004
America's prison camp at Guantánamo Bay holds detainees in extreme conditions. But David Rose, in this extract from his remarkable new book, says the intelligence gathered has failed to stop any terror attacks.

New hope for Britons in Guantanamo: The Observer, 4 July 2004
Supreme Court blow to Bush leaves camp policy close to collapse as lawyers prepare to file 'habeas corpus' suits.

US guards 'filmed beatings' at terror camp: The Observer, 16 May 2004
Senator urges action as Briton reveals Guantanamo abuse

'They tied me up like a beast and began kicking me': The Observer, 16 May 2004
As America struggles to come to terms with military abuse in Iraq, similar stories are emerging from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Tarek Dergoul, a Briton released from the camp in March, talks here for the first time about his two-year ordeal.

Revealed: the full story of the Guantanamo Britons: The Observer, 14 March 2004
The Observer's David Rose hears the Tipton Three give a harrowing account of their captivity in Cuba.

How we survived jail hell: The Observer, 14 March 2004
For two years the Tipton Three have been silent prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Now, in this remarkable interview with David Rose, they describe for the first time the extraordinary story of their journey from the West Midlands to Camp Delta

Even death row is preferable to this: The Observer, 22 February 2004
David Rose, one of the few British journalists to have visited Camp Delta, describes the inhumane conditions facing those inside.