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BRITISH RESIDENTS IN GUANTANAMO CAMPAIGN UPDATE

Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign list reader | 17.02.2006 10:49 | Repression | Birmingham


15th February 2006

Jamal Abdullah Kiyemba – British resident abandoned to his fate. On Thursday 9th February British Resident Jamal Abdullah Kiyemba was transferred out of Guantanamo to Uganda after the British Government refused to help him. The Home Secretary has issued an order banning Jamal from the UK despite the fact that he has lived here since he was 14, his family are here, and he has never been charged with any crime.

Read more about this and find a letter template to send to your MP at: http://www.cageprisoners.com/campaigns.php?id=277 Lets support Jamal to come back to the UK.

The cases of Omar Deghayes, Bisher Al-Rawi and Jamil El Banna are the subject of a judicial review currently being considered by the High Court, and the British government has still not answered questions over British involvement in the kidnap of Bisher Al-Rawi, Jamil El-Banna and Binyam Mohamed.

Sign an open letter to Tony Blair, Jack Straw and Charles Clarke demanding justice for British residents posted by Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign at: To sign the Petition Click Here

Send a message of hope to the British residents - for more information go to Click Here to write to a detainee

16th February 2006 – Oral hearing of application for judicial review of government decision not to help Omar Deghayes, Jamil El-Banna and Bisher Al-Rawi Supporters for Omar Deghayes, Jamil El-Banna and Bisher Al-Rawi will be demonstrating outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand. For more information call 07796478421.

16th February 2006 – Babar Ahmad Campaign - Parliamentary meeting about Extradition Act 2003, 6.45 to 8.30 pm, Attlee Suite, House of Commons, Westminster

Babar Ahmad is a British citizen who faces the real possibility of being extradited to the US under the Extradition Act 2003. The act was rushed through Parliament and is a non-reciprocal arrangement with the US which allows for British citizens to be transferred to the US for interrogation, held there indefinitely without trial and without any legal redress for allegations of torture and ill-treatment. Chaired by Sadiq Khan MP, speakers: Boris Johnson MP, Vincent Cable MP, Sally Ireland (Senior Legal Officer, Justice, Gareth Peirce, James Welch, Moazzem Begg, representations on behalf of mayor of London Ken Livingstone.

For more information about Babar Ahmad see http://www.freebabarahmad.com/

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