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guantanamo: five years on

 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:19 pm    Post subject: guantanamo: five years on Reply with quote

GUANTANAMO: 5 YEARS ON

On 11 January 2007 the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay will have been in
operation for five years. Over 750 people have been subjected to arbitrary
and indefinite imprisonment and torture and none have been released as a
result of the legal process. Of those who have been released, none have
subsequently been charged.

The National Guantanamo Coalition will be marking this day with two
events.

1) London
Join the London Guantanamo Campaign and its supporters as we mark this day
with a vigil outside Downing Street demanding the closure of the prison.

Date: Wednesday 10th January 2007
Venue: Downing Street
Time: 6pm
For more information please contact:
London_gitmo@yahoo.co.uk <mailto:London_gitmo@yahoo.co.uk> /07961033271

2) Birmingham
HIATTS

Suppliers of handcuffs, shackles and chains - for African slaves in the
19th century to the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in the 21st,

On the fifth anniversary of the illegal prison camp at Guantanamo Bay,
join our birthday protest outside the Hiatts factory in Birmingham

THURSDAY 11 JANUARY 2007
1.30 PM
BALTIMORE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM 42

For more information, contact:
07721 427690 /bhamguantanamocampaign@yahoo.co.uk
<mailto:bhamguantanamocampaign@yahoo.co. uk>


Break the Shackles

Break the Chains

Close Guantanamo Bay

www.guantanamo.org.uk <http://www.guantanamo.org.uk/>


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Rinty
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:23 pm    Post subject: u Reply with quote

There is an event in Scotland too rfb.

In Edinburgh on the 11th with a public meeting in Glasgow the night before with Amer Anwar as the main speaker.

You can get more details at the SACC site www.sacc.org.uk
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