Mansoor Adayfi

Mansoor Adayfi is a writer, artist, human rights advocate, and former prisoner who was detained without charge or trial in Guantánamo from 2002 to 2016. He works as CAGE International’s Guantanamo Project Coordinator. In 2021, he completed his bachelor’s degree in management, with his thesis serving as the basis of the Guantanamo Survivors Fund, which he co-founded along with US lawyers and NGOs. Adayfi’s first book, Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo, was published by Hachette in 2021 and won the 2022 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award. In 2024, Audible published his audiobook, Letters from Guantanamo. He has written for news media and scholarly publications, including the introduction for the 2017-2018 exhibition of Guantanamo prisoners’ artwork at the John Jay College of Justice. Recently, Adayfi has spoken out against the U.S. government’s plan to house over 30,000 immigrants in the Migrant Operations Center at Guantánamo Bay.