Group wants closure of Guantanamo Bay

[struggle4progress]

<snip> The director of Amnesty International UK, Kate Allen, said: "In the past three years Guantanamo Bay has become an icon of lawlessness with prisoners languishing in legal limbo without charge or trial. " The UK government should now take a principled stand to push for the end of Guantanamo Bay's illegal and abusive regime." <snip>

Human Rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said yesterday that there were still at least seven detainees at Camp X-ray who had previously resided in the UK.

They include three refugees granted leave to remain in the UK and a Saudi man with a British wife and four children. "Clearly we have a moral and a legal obligation to help those people," he said. "We have the power to intervene and intervene powerfully no matter where we want to go. <snip>

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. The entire world must take a principled stand

Guantanamo and the rest of Bush's gulag network must be shut down and the neoconservatives made to account for their crimes.