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East London Muslims Caged Guantanamo-Style

r2r | 05.10.2007 22:51 | Iraq | Repression | Terror War | London

Two British Muslims are locked-up in a cage, chained and hooded for 6 days and nights without basic amenities and comfort in a busy traffic junction corner on the Whitechapel Road (East London) ...











Hidden Detainees, the organisers behind the event, hope to recreate the barbaric conditions of the Guantanamo Bay (Camp X-Ray) camp in Cuba, where over 775 suspects from around the world were illegally held as part of America’s ‘War on Terror’. The notorious Camp X-Ray has received worldwide condemnation for operating outside the law, with record numbers of prisoners committing suicide and going on extensive hunger strikes.

“For over five years the prisoners have not been charged. They have been left in a state of limbo, rendering any effort to challenge their case in the court of law a futile exercise”, said Hidden Detainees spokesperson, Abdur-Rahman Sati.

The organisers have teamed up with a number of other human rights and community organisations to stage this extraordinary live stunt, including the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE), Liberty, Amnesty, Centre for the Study of Terrorism (CFSOT) and the 1990 Trust.

The Guantanomo Bay Cage in East London will be officially launched on Friday 5th October at 2pm at the junction of Whitechapel Road and New Road (London E1, next to the Royal London Hospital; nearest tube: Whitechapel) by former Guantanamo Bay detainees.

r2r

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I think Gitmo is a pys-op

06.10.2007 04:17

...in other words you are meant to know about it it and all the horrors, use of LSD as a torture mechanism etc etc. Its a 'threat' to the world - gloves off' recall.

...so bearing this is mind, please don't forget to highlight all the other torture facilities used/operated by the USA around the world in its so called war on terror.

Counter Intellegence


keep it in the public eye

08.10.2007 09:20

This sounds an amazing thing to do, fair play if people really are going to stay in one of these cages for six days.
Great way anyhow to keep Guantanamo in the public eye.
Best of luck.

Val


Stop & search at Bethnal Green

10.10.2007 09:28

I wonder if that's why a British Transport Police 'counter-terrorism' unit were conducting 'random' stop and searches at Bethnal Green tube on the Friday morning. I got stopped and searched there. They said they 'had to be seen to search a cross-section of the community' - i.e. I was the token white person. If the searches are so random no doubt they will be stopping the genteel citizens of Hampstead or Kensington next time.

manog


BROTHERS IN CHAINS films and discussion

10.10.2007 13:00

This thursday, a short video showing the start of action will be shown at the rampART community cinema, off Commercial Rd near the junction with Canon Street Road.

Additionally, two documentaries relating to the erosion of civil liberties will be shown...

This Is Camp X-Ray (Dec 2004, 73 minutes)

Punchy film documenting a week long, fully functional internment camp that was set up in the middle of Manchester three years ago, from its inception, construction, operation and aftermath. It features interviews with individuals who took part as guards and prisoners. There is reaction from local residents and passers-by. The film concludes with an emotional interview with the sisters of Jamal Al-Harith, a Manchester resident who was eventually released from Guantanamo Bay after 3 years of imprisonment without charge.

SOCPA - THE MOVIE (2007, 60 mins)

This film looks at the how the increased repression in this country is being played out in legislation designed to rid Parliament Square of Brian Haw, the lone protestor who has camped outside parliament since 2001 in full and defiant sight of the politicians who had voted to support the so-called 'war on terror'. The film follows Haw’s successful battle to remain, but also shows the enormous creativity and tenacity of other campaigners appalled at the idea that we have to ask for permission to protest near Parliament. The comedy and farce of the situation is explored with Sunday picnics, crazy cops and Charlie Chaplin lookalikes, but the dark side is equally exposed with police assaults, stories of harassment and persecution, and the discriminatory application of the law for political ends.

Films start 8pm

15 Rampart Street
(off Commercial Rd, nr NewRd/CanonStRd Jnct)

Entry Free

Note: See also, Hidden Detainees - Silenced but not Forgotten on Saturday 21st Oct, 6:15pm at the London Muslim Centre, 82-02 Whitechapel Rd.

rampart


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