Just to make it quite clear...
Jackie Chase from Save Omar speaking
candles for the remaining detainees - 277 to date
Andy Worthington - author of "The Guantánamo Files"
Dr Shahrar Ali - Green Party candidate for London Mayoral Elections
calling for justice
We were joined by the Save Omar Campaign from Brighton who performed their street theatre piece “Air Guantánamo”, poems and passages written by Guantánamo detainees were read and a few speeches were given. Around 50 people braved the cold and attended. The vigil was well attended by young people, which is always encouraging. Two letter-writing actions were also launched for the two remaining British residents in Guantánamo Bay – Binyam Mohamed, a 29 year old Londoner and Ahmed Belbacha from Bournemouth. The letters can be copied and pasted to the FCO, Home Office and the Prime Minister from www.guantanamo.org.uk
Thank you to everyone who has joined us over the past year. The news from Guantánamo is always grim. In recent weeks, disclosures have been made of the first known contraction of HIV (which has now developed into AIDS) by a detainee in Guantánamo Bay due to medical abuse and complicity in torture http://cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=23201 The US military has refused to hand his medical file over to his lawyer but at the same time denies that any detainees have contracted HIV through medical abuse. The American military has also revealed that beyond the horrors of what we already know happens at Guantánamo, there is a further Camp 7 whose whereabouts is kept secret and where detainees such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are kept.
The LGC will be outside the US Embassy this Friday at 6-7pm as per usual. We are usually found behind the “building works” right opposite the entrance to the Embassy in Grosvenor Square, near Oxford Street (nearest tube: Bond Street/ Marble Arch). Come and join us and call on the American government to stop torture, “disappearances” and arbitrary detention in the “war on terror”. No to torture! No to detention without trial!
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