Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin presented with award at film première
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Pictured (left–right): Actor Thomas Jane, Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, I Am Gitmo director Philippe Diaz and CLSNOW founder Chico Brown.
Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has been presented with a human rights award at the US première of a new film about the Guantanamo Bay torture camp.
The Irish legal academic, who as UN special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism was the first UN investigator granted access to the facility by the US government, was presented with the CLSNOW Human Rights Award at the premiere of I Am Gitmo.
The film, which is being shown in US cinemas and will later appear on the new CLSNOW streaming platform, is a drama about the harrowing ordeal of a Muslim schoolteacher ensnared in the aftermath of 9/11. It is fictional but inspired by true events.
Professor Ní Aoláin is a professor of law at Queen’s University Belfast and regents professor and Robina professor of law, public policy and society at the University of Minnesota Law School.
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