Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg will speak about his experiences at a book launch.

Mr Begg, a British citizen who was held at the American military jail for three years, will talk at City Books in Western Road, Hove, next month.

The event is expected to attract many supporters of Omar Deghayes, the 36-year-old law graduate from Saltdean who is still languishing in Guantanamo Bay despite not having been charged with a crime after four years in captivity.

Mr Begg claims to have been subjected to more than three hundred interrogations, death threats and torture and witnessed the killings of two detainees before he was released following pressure from the Government. Mr Begg and the other freed British citizens were cleared of any wrongdoing once back in the UK.

The Government has refused to help Mr Deghayes and eight other Britons because, although most have lived in the UK for many years, they are refugees and do not hold UK passports.

Mr Begg will launch his book entitled Enemy Combatant, written with journalist Victoria Brittain, about his arrest and incarceration and what it means to be an intelligent, politically engaged Muslim living in the West after 9/11, on March 14 at 6.30pm.