The National Guantanamo Coalition

The London Guantánamo Campaign held a parliamentary meeting on 25th February with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Guantánamo Bay, “Diego Garcia: A Year On”, to mark the first anniversary of the Foreign Secretary’s admission of British involvement in extraordinary rendition:
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Cageprisoners welcomes the return of Binyam Mohammed but others remain in Guantanamo

Cageprisoners today welcomes the return of Binyam Mohammed, a British resident unlawfully detained in Guantanamo Bay for the last seven years. The UK government has used its relationship with the US to bring him home and must now do so for the remaining British residents, amongst them Shaker Aamer. Spokesman for Cageprisoners, Moazzam Begg, said,

"The news of Binyam Mohmmed's return has been met with a great sense of relief and jubilation. It has taken nearly five years but his ordeal finally over. However, Binyam is not the last British resident in Guantanamo . Shaker Aamer - a long-term London resident - has been held in Guantanamo since early 2002. He has not seen his British family since then - including his youngest son - despite the British government's written assurance to his family that they are actively seeking his return. It is high time this family was reunited"

The London Guantánamo Campaign welcomes the return of Binyam Mohamed to the UK. His return is long overdue, and we applaud the Foreign Office for taking steps to bring it about. We hope that he will now be given every assistance to enable his recovery from his ordeal, and to reclaim his life.
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SACC says "Welcome Home, Binyam"

Press Release from Scotland Against Criminalising Communities 4.30pm, 23 February 2009 Scotland Against Criminalising Communities says "Welcome Home" to Binyam Mohamed, who arrived at Northolt military base, UK this afternoon after more than four years internment at Guantanamo Bay.
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Birmingham Welcomes Binyam Mohamed to Britain from Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

We welcome Binyam’s return to Britain after enduring nearly seven years of illegal imprisonment and facing terrible torture. His ordeal has been such that we are thankful that he has returned alive. We hope that he is offered appropriate treatment and that he will regain his health.
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Guantánamo - Obama could do better

Obama has yet to make any commitment to dismantle the key components of George Bush's attack on human rights

Scottish-based human rights group Scotland Against Criminalising Communities and the Scotland Stop the War Coalition are giving a cautious welcome to orders signed by President Obama today to close Guantánamo Bay and to put an end to some of the harshest interrogation techniques. But we are dismayed that Obama has so far made no commitment to permanently abandon trial by the notorious Military Commissions and that his comments during the signing ceremony indicate that some Guantanamo prisoners may continue to be held indefinitely without trial. We think Obama could do better. He needs to be a great deal firmer in dealing with the legacy that George Bush has left him....

Read the Full Press Statement from SACC at http://www.sacc. org.uk/index. php?option= content&task=view&id=657&catid=27

Binyam's Story: From Ladbroke Grove to Guantánamo Bay

Kicking off a weekend of actions around London to mark the seventh anniversary of the opening of the American detention camp at Guantánamo Bay on 11 January 2002, the London Guantánamo Campaign held an evening of words and film in solidarity with the last Londoner in Guantánamo Bay, Ladbroke Grove resident Binyam Mohamed on Friday 9 December.
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Seven Years of Guantánamo Bay: London Actions to Mark Anniversary

Sunday 11 January 2009 marked seven years of lawlessness, torture, abuse, arbitrary detention and all the extralegal excesses committed by the Bush administration in the name of the “war on terror” as the detention and torture camp at Guantánamo Bay “celebrated” its seventh birthday.
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OF GUANTÁNAMO BAY

The LGC is currently putting together its actions for January 2009 to mark the seventh anniversary of Guantánamo Bay opening up. It’s a real shame that it has come to this: that seven years later, Guantánamo Bay and other secret, illegal jails where people are held arbitrarily (imagine being locked up in a dark, narrow box for years on end with no end in sight…) and subjected to horrific psychological and physical torture are still up and running. What does it say about the state of the world and humanity in our day and our age? As the world moves towards celebrating sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December this year, will they be celebrating at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere?