The National Coalition of Guantanamo Campaigns consists of the following groups:-

-Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign
-Justice for Omar Deghayes Campaign (Brighton)
-London Guantanamo Campaign
-Manchester Guantanamo & Belmarsh Campaign

The above groups have come together with the purpose of jointly raising awareness of, and campaigning for the issue of Imprisonment Without Trial in Guantanamo Bay and similar US prisons around the world. The campaign primarily fights for the release of the eight British residents still detained (Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohammed, Shaker Aamer, Bisher Al-Rawi, Jamil El Banna, Ahmad Errachidi, Adhmed Ben Bacha, and Abdulnour Sameur). Jamal Kiyemba, formerly a British resident has been released to Uganda.

The British government refuses to take up their case despite the release of all British citizens from Guantanamo Bay. They remaining imprisoned people are long term residents (up to eighteen years living in the UK), have family who are UK nationals, and some had citizenship applications in progress at the time of their detention. The US government has not produced any evidence against them despite being detained for many years.

The detainees have reported that they have been tortured (Omar Deghayes was blinded in one eye after an 'Emergency Reaction Force' in Camp Delta used pepper spray in his face). These accounts are consistent with those of the released British Nationals.

The US government have threatened to return the detainees to their counties of origin. Many of the detainees are refugees who fled to the UK, for example Omar Deghayes and his family fled from Libya after the Gaddafi regime murdered his father.

Those campaigning on behalf of the Guantanamo detainees demand that the British Government, as a matter of urgency does the following:-

1. Immediately confirm the exact health status of each of the British residents still held at Guantanamo and make their families aware of their health status.

2. As a matter of urgency, arrange a delegation consisting of a medical doctor, family members and members of Parliament to visit Guantanamo in order to determine the physical and mental health of each of the British residents still held there.

3. As a matter of urgency, demand that each of the British Residents be released from Guantanamo and returned to Britain.