Mother of Guantánamo detainee ‘still waiting’ for US and German apologies

New film sheds light on story of Murat Kurnaz, arrested without explanation a month after 9/11

The mother of a German-born Guantanamo Bay detainee held at the camp for six years and tortured has said she is still waiting for an apology or compensation as a new film sheds light on a story she says remains an open wound".

In Rabiye Kurnaz vs George W Bush,which premiered at the Berlin film festival on Saturday, the director, Andreas Dresen, whose socially engaged film-making has led him to be described as Germany's answer to Ken Loach, revisits the case of Murat Kurnaz, who was arrested without explanation in Pakistan in October 2001, a month after the 9/11 attacks.