Hearts and flowers to ward off the Spanish Inquisition: campaigners from save omar will be demonstrating outside Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday, February 14th from 9.30am (meet 8am sharp at Brighton Station to travel up to London with us).
Press release 11/02/08
Omar Deghayes and Jamil El-Banna, both released with no charge from Guantánamo Bay in Dec 2007, will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court, Horseferry Road, London on Thursday, February 14th at 10am. The hearing is in connection with a request from Spain for their extradition to face charges there.
Members of the Save-Omar Campaign, a community campaign based in Brighton for their fellow resident Omar Deghayes, will be travelling to London where they will be joined by supporters from the National Guantánamo Campaign in a demonstration of Hearts and Flowers outside the court from 9.30am and again after the hearing.
Campaign member Jackie Chase said:
"Omar and Jamil have been wrongfully detained, obscenely tortured and treated despicably for over five years by the United States at Guantánamo and other secret prisons. The Spanish authorities provided the US with the photograph which led to Omar's wrongful detention and was proven to be of a different man. It is time to leave these men alone and let them return to some semblance of a normal life. Omar has many medical issues, including an eye blinded by the guards at Guantánamo, which are at last receiving attention. It would be inhumane to continue to harangue these men any further. The US military should apologize for its mistakes and return its dealings with suspected criminals to an honourable and transparent system of due process, so rebuilding trust and respect."
On the eve of the protest there will be a public meeting with Moazzam Begg, Omar’s brother Abubaker Deghayes, Caroline Lucas MEP and Chris Nineham. The meeting will be at Brighton Friends Meeting House, on Wednesday, February 13th, at 7.30pm.
ENDS
For more details on Omar Deghayes’ case, or comments on the latest developments please contact: Jackie 07799 564620
Omar Deghayes and Jamil El-Banna, both released with no charge from Guantánamo Bay in Dec 2007, will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court, Horseferry Road, London on Thursday, February 14th at 10am. The hearing is in connection with a request from Spain for their extradition to face charges there.
Members of the Save-Omar Campaign, a community campaign based in Brighton for their fellow resident Omar Deghayes, will be travelling to London where they will be joined by supporters from the National Guantánamo Campaign in a demonstration of Hearts and Flowers outside the court from 9.30am and again after the hearing.
Campaign member Jackie Chase said:
"Omar and Jamil have been wrongfully detained, obscenely tortured and treated despicably for over five years by the United States at Guantánamo and other secret prisons. The Spanish authorities provided the US with the photograph which led to Omar's wrongful detention and was proven to be of a different man. It is time to leave these men alone and let them return to some semblance of a normal life. Omar has many medical issues, including an eye blinded by the guards at Guantánamo, which are at last receiving attention. It would be inhumane to continue to harangue these men any further. The US military should apologize for its mistakes and return its dealings with suspected criminals to an honourable and transparent system of due process, so rebuilding trust and respect."
On the eve of the protest there will be a public meeting with Moazzam Begg, Omar’s brother Abubaker Deghayes, Caroline Lucas MEP and Chris Nineham. The meeting will be at Brighton Friends Meeting House, on Wednesday, February 13th, at 7.30pm.
ENDS
For more details on Omar Deghayes’ case, or comments on the latest developments please contact: Jackie 07799 564620
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