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International Day of Protest in London demanding closure of Guantanamo
London_Protest_20060715b.jpgAs part of the international day of protest, marches, demonstrations and vigils were organised across the world for the 15th July 2006. Several different protests were organised across the United States, with protests and vigils in the Middle East, London and Australia.
In London after a short march from Marble Arch to the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, the crowd was addressed by numerous speakers including Victoria Brittain, co-author with Moazzam Begg of "Enemy Combatant", Yvonne Ridley, Ghada Razuk of the Stop the War Coalition,Azzam Tamimi and others. In total, speeches outside the embassy lasted for over an hour and a half.

Omar Deghayes from Brighton is one of the British residents known to be imprisoned in London_Protest_20070715a.jpgGuantanamo. His sister, Amani, speaking with a perfect Home counties accent and wearing a T shirt with the web address http://www.save-omar.org.uk/ , told how when she was 8 years old, their mother had fled with five children from Libya to Britain.

Shortly after her speech it was announced that she and Jackie were going to take a petition to the embassy and a policewoman stepped forward to open the fence between the crowd and the embassy. This petition was for an independent inquiry into the deaths of prisoners at Guantanamo and for its closure.

George Galloway spoke, amongst other things, of the case of Babar Ahmad. He said that he had become a friend of Ahmad's family and that he totally believed in his innocence. The final speaker was barrister Hugo Charlton from CAMPACC.

The organisers then announced that they would be proceeding to the Home Office via Marble Arch. Here a petition was to be handed in demanding that Britain ensures the safe return to Britain of the British residents still in Guantanamo. I didn't see how many (if any) dispersed from Grosvenor Square, but I counted about 215 people still with the march.
as it continued towards Marble Arch.
S Hewitt

International Day of Protest in Yemen demanding closure of Guantanamo
Familiy members call for the closure of the Guantanamo detention.
gitmoprotestyemen.jpgThe flags were raised and bearing slogans like “Close Guantanamo Prison” or “Freedom to al-Helah.” 1000 demonstrators, some from members from concerned NGO's and some from families of those held at Guantanamo Bay Prison, marched in front of the Yemeni Parliament and then to the United Nations building last Saturday. The demonstration was arranged by the HOOD organization (The National Organization for Defending Human Rights and Freedom). The head of the constitutional committee in the Parliament, Ali Buhaliqaqh took the letter listing the demonstrators' demands and said that parliament would discuss it in its coming session, according to Khalid al-Anesi, HOOD's executive director.  Read more
International Day of Protest in Sydney, Australia
Reports of International Protest day from across the world
Sydney, Australia


In very wet and cold weather conditions, between 200 and 250 people turned up today, Saturday July 15th, to the International Day of protest outside Sydney Town Hall calling for the Closure of Guantanamo and the repatriation of Australian David Hicks 

Many demonstrators were wearing atleast one piece of orange clothing.
There were Orange balloons all around the Town Hall saying Bring Hicks
Home.
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National Guantanamo Demonstration 15th July

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Birmingham Action Against CIA Flights
On 343544.jpgSaturday 24 June 2006, Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign held a vigil on the A45 outside Birmingham International Airport to "demand action  to put a stop to the CIA's torture flights". This was one of several vigils scheduled to take place at different airports on the same day, ahead of the forthcoming presentation on Tuesday 27th June of a report titled "alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers of detainees involving Council of Europe member states" by Dick Marty to the so-called Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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Stop Torture Flights! - Action at airports in UK this Saturday 24th June
"People kidnapped by the US are being shuttled around the world for interrogation, often to places where torture is practiced – and the US administration doesn’t deny it. This is called extraordinary rendition”

A report by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty says European governments including Britain are complicit in these abuses.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will be debating the report on 27th June. Join our vigils to demand action to put a stop to the CIA’s torture flights. Peaceful vigils are planned around the UK and Ireland.



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Suicide is now an 'act of war' according to US administration
The Anti-Guantanamo grafittisuicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says. The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were "committed" and had killed themselves in "an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us".

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The camp commander's claims of a co-ordinated revolt are challenged by new details of the violence
The guard_and_cells3.jpgprison camps at Guantanamo Bay were gripped by a series of uprisings and disturbances which suggest a state of near revolt, it has emerged. Reports from within the controversial detention centre in Cuba claim the base's military commanders believe there were links between a series of suicide attempts, medical emergencies and the violent clashes between 20 inmates and guards on Thursday [18th May].
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UK 'aided CIA' with torture flights
romania372ready.jpgThe full extent of European collusion with the CIA during operations to abduct terrorism suspects and fly them to countries where they may be tortured is laid bare today by the continent's most authoritative human rights body.
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Guantánamo prisoners clash with guards after new rash of suicide attempts
guantanamo.jpgThe US military has provided conflicting reports of a clash that took place Thursday between guards and prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba internment camp. Initially, a spokesman reported that inmates, wielding improvised weapons, had confronted guards when the latter attempted to prevent another detainee from committing suicide. The suicide attempt was said to be the fourth of the day.
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