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26 June:Demonstration in Solidarity with Victims of Extraordinary Rendition

London Guantánamo Campaign | 10.06.2010 11:12 | Guantánamo | Repression | Terror War

26 June is international day in support of victims of torture. Over the past decade, up to 200,000 people all over the world have been swallowed alive into the black hole of extraordinary rendition - torture, kidnap, simulated live burial, sensory deprivation, physical, psychological and sexual torture...all in a day's work for the torturers

On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture,
the London Guantánamo Campaign invites you to

A DEMONSTRATION IN SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS OF
EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION

Date: Saturday 26 June 2010
Time: 2-4pm
Venue: outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London W1A 1AE (nearest tube: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

Speakers include:
Yvonne Ridley, Journalist
Ilyas Townsend, Justice for Aafia Coalition
Joy Hurcombe, Brighton Against Guantanamo
John Clossick, Stop The War Coalition
Speakers from the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers and others (TBC)


Torture. Kidnap. Waterboarding. “Disappearances”. Sensory deprivation. Simulated live burial. "Ghost" prisoners …all in a day’s work for the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme. An international “spider’s web” of illegal torture facilities has sprung up over the past decade with the collusion of the international community. Estimates of the number of victims range from 40,000 to over 200,000. President Obama has not promised to put an end to the practice of extraordinary rendition. Prisons such as Bagram continue to grow in size and stories of torture and abuse, including those involving the British security services, continue to emerge. This illegal practice and international complicity in it must end.
No to torture and enforced “disappearance”. Yes to justice and respect for human rights and the rule of law.


Organised by the London Guantánamo Campaign
For more details, please e-mail: london.gtmo[at]gmail.com
 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126289070738293

London Guantánamo Campaign
- e-mail: london.gtmo[at]gmail.com

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J14- 27 on Trial in D.C. over Guantanamo

10.06.2010 12:21

BROKEN PROMISES, BROKEN LAWS, BROKEN LIVES

Twenty-Seven to Go on Trial for Protesting the Obama Administration’s
Failure to Close Guantanamo, Plan for Indefinite Detention, and
Refusal to Prosecute Torture

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, June 14 twenty-seven will face trial
stemming from arrests at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2010 — the
date by which President Obama had promised the closure of the
Guantanamo detention camp. The human rights activists will hold a
press conference outside the courthouse defending their protest,
condemning the Obama administration’s continuation of Bush policies,
and explaining their use in court of the “necessity defense.” The
press conference will be held Monday, June 14th at 8:30 am, across
from the Federal District Courthouse (333 Constitution Avenue, NW).

On January 21, twenty-seven people dressed as Guantanamo prisoners
were arrested on the steps of the Capitol holding banners reading
“Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives.” Inside the Capitol
Rotunda, at the location where deceased presidents lie in state,
fourteen activists were arrested performing a memorial service for
three men who died at Guantanamo in 2006. Initially reported as
suicides, the deaths may have been — as recent evidence suggests — the
result of the men being tortured to death (see Scott Horton, “Murders
at Guantanamo, March 2010, Harpers).

“The continued operation of the prison camp at Guantanamo is
unacceptable,” Matthew W. Daloisio of Witness Against Torture. “If
Guantanamo was a foreign policy liability and stain on the rule of law
on day one of the Obama presidency, it surely is eighteen months
later.”

“The deaths at Guantanamo show how barbaric US policies have been,”
says Helen Schietinger, a defendant in the trial. “We are still
waiting for accountability for those who designed and carried out
torture policies under President Bush. Obama can’t restore the rule
of law if he doesn’t enforce the law.”

The human rights activists plan to mount a “necessity defense” before
Judge Russell Canan. “We will be arguing that we broke the law only
after exhausting all legal means of opposing a much larger crime—the
indefinite detention, mistreatment, and torture of men at Guantanamo
and other US prisons,” says Jerica Arents of Chicago, Illinois,
another the defendants.

The January protests were the culmination of a twelve-day fast for
justice and an end to torture organized by Witness Against Torture in
Washington, DC. More than 100 people participated in the fast and
daily actions throughout the nation’s Capital.

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Witness Against Torture formed in December 2005 when twenty-five
activists walked to Guantanamo to visit the prisoners and condemn
torture policies. Since then, it has engaged in public education,
community outreach, and non-violent civil disobedience. To learn more
visit www.witnesstorture.org

Witness Against Torture
- Homepage: http://www.witnesstorture.org


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