Andy Worthington is an independent journalist and human rights activist, widely acknowledged as an expert on Guantánamo. His book The Guantánamo Files, telling the stories of the men held at Guantánamo, was published by Pluto Press in 2007, and he has published over 2,000 articles about Guantánamo on his website andyworthington.co.uk. He is the co-director of the 2009 documentary ‘Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo’, and the co-founder (with the U.S. attorney Tom Wilner) of the Close Guantánamo campaign, established in 2012, and (with the activist Joanne MacInnes) of the We Stand With Shaker campaign, established in 2014, which contributed to securing the release of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, in 2015. He was the lead author of a UN report on secret detention in 2010, and a media partner for WikiLeaks’ release of classified military files from Guantánamo in 2011. He has also written for the New York Times, the Guardian and Al-Jazeera, and in 2013 was short-listed for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.