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Hiatts.jpgCampaigners fighting for the closure of Guantanamo and the release of its prisoners, including  family members of British residents still held at Guantanamo are marking the fifth anniversary on the 11th of Januray 2007 with a protest outside the factory in Birmingham that supplied two hundred years ago to the slave trade and today supplies chains to notorious American prison at Guantanamo and other similar centres of torture and human rights abuse.

Speakers will include Clara Gutteridge (Reprieve), AbuBakr Deghayes (brother of Omar Deghayes), Sandy Mitchell (tortured in Saudi Arabia in Hiatt shackles), Dr David Nicholl (Birmingham physician and human rights activist who has spoken out regarding Guantanamo medical abuses) Alliya Stennet (Respect Candidate for Birmingham Council) & Councillor Tahir Ali     

Assembly point for the protest 
Junction of Rocky Lane and Baltimore Road 1.30pm 11th January 2007
Map Meeting Point Junction with Rocky Lane

Those travelling by Train to Birmingham  
Take No 16 From Bull Street (Bull Street Map Location) to Hampstead Road,
Hampstead Village (about 15 minutes)

From Hampstead Village Take 424 to Rocky Lane ,
Lavendon Road – See the map of the protest Map Meeting Point Junction with Rocky Lane

The protest will be followed by a meeting at the University of Central England (Perry Barr Campus), Attwood building Room 040 starting after the protest around 3.00 pm.  
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