Fri11Jan - LONDON - Close Guatanamo demos

[ian neal]

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10226

From Amnesty

Now is your chance get out on the streets and take action to show the United States that we want Guantánamo Bay closed!

On 11 January, it will be six years since the first detainees were transferred, hooded and shackled, into Guantánamo Bay.

In the years that have followed the US has detained over 700 men, none of whom have had access to a full and fair trial. Today nearly 300 men continue to be detained at the base - many have suffered ill-treatment or torture.

Join us outside the US Embassy in London from 9:30am on Friday 11 January to add your voice to our call for Guantánamo to be closed. The more people that can be there the louder our voice will be. If you aren't able to come to London, there will be major events across the UK, including Edinburgh and Belfast. Go to our website to find out more.

We'd love to hear from you, so please email us to tell us you'll be coming.

[andyb]

There is also a demo outside Parliament from 17:30 until 8pm that We are Change have helped arrange. There will be guest speakers including ex detainees. More details to follow.

During the daytime a number of us have the day off and will be raising awareness around central London. If you have the time and want to get involved then drop me a PM or speak to me tomorrow night at the Counting House.

[andyb]

On the sixth anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay, the London Guantánamo Campaign, in conjunction with Cageprisoners, invites you to join us on Friday 11 January 2008 at 6-8pm in Parliament Square (nearest tube: Westminster) to call for an end to the injustice and illegality that is the American military detention camp in Guantánamo Bay. Speakers include Moazzam Begg, Gareth Peirce, Yvonne Ridley, Victoria Brittain, Jean Lambert MEP and others.

We invite you to join us to call on the British government to take action to close Guantánamo Bay down once and for all and to help repatriate detainees who do not have anywhere to go on release. The British government must also seek the release and return to the UK of Binyam Mohammed and Ahmed Belbacha. Please join us in the evening and call on the British government to take action. This is an authorised event.

This demonstration comes at the end of a day of action organised by the London Guantánamo Campaign and Cageprisoners, including a letter being handed in to Downing Street by former Guantánamo detainees calling for the detention facility to be closed and a “statues” action all over London , visiting key sites in the capital.

No more torture! No more detention without charge or trial! No more anniversaries!

For more details, contact the London Guantánamo Campaign: london_gitmo@yahoo.co.uk or Cageprisoners: contact@cageprisoners.com

Part of the National Guantanamo Coalition. For more national events on the day: www.guantanamo.org.uk