Tortured by CIA and Detained at Gitmo Without Trial, Ahmed Rabbani Gives Haunting Review of 'The Report'—a New Film He'll Likely Never See

A victim of the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program who has spent over 15 years locked up in the U.S. military prison at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba shared his thoughts on a new film entitled The Report in an op-ed published Tuesday by USA Today.

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“It is interesting to hear about the film, and I am glad Amazon had the courage to make it. On the other hand, there are some omissions that make me sad.”
—Ahmed Rabbani, Gitmo detainee

“I will likely never be allowed to see The Report,” which was released in United States theaters on Friday, because “the censors will not likely let the movie reach my detention center,” wrote Mohammed Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani.

However, “my lawyers have told me about it,” Rabbani continued, noting that he is one of the few detainees at the U.S. prison known as Gitmo who received a copy of the redacted executive summary (pdf) from the more-than 6,700-page Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture—which inspired the film.

“It is interesting to hear about the film, and I am glad Amazon had the courage to make it,” he wrote. “On the other hand, there are some omissions that make me sad.”

Rabbani, a Pakistani citizen and former taxi driver from Karachi, has been imprisoned at Gitmo without charge or trial since 2004. “I was mistaken for an extremist, captured by Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s government, and sold to the CIA for a bounty in 2002,” he explained in The Los Angeles Times last year. “I have withstood a lot of torture. Before they brought me to Guantánamo, the Americans took me to a black site in Kabul known as the Dark Prison, where my hands were shackled overhead for days on end.”

Written and directed by filmmaker Scott Z. Burns, The Report stars Adam Driver as Daniel Jones, the lead Senate investigator for the torture report, and Annette Bening as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who chaired the Intelligence Committee 2009–2015. In December 2014, the committee released the report’s more-than 500-page executive summary, but the full version remains classified.