Benedict Cumberbatch Says He’s ‘Going to Plead’ with Biden to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay

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Cumberbatch Urges Biden to Close Guantanamo After ‘Mauritanian’: ‘Enough Have Suffered’

In a new interview with The Independent, Benedict Cumberbatch calls on Joe Biden to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Cumberbatch got a crash course in all things Guantanamo Bay as a producer and star of “The Mauritanian,” the Kevin Macdonald-directed legal drama based on Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s 2015 memoir “Guantánamo Diary.” Slahi (played by Tahar Rahim in the film) was captured by the U.S. government and imprisoned in the detention camp…