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Shut Down Guantanamo - weekly protests outside US Embassy

London Guantanamo Campaign | 31.01.2007 09:37 | Anti-racism | Terror War | London

The London Guantanamo Campaign is starting up a weekly protest outside the US Embassy calling on the American government to close down the facility. Building up on the impetus and the success of the demonstrations held in London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad earlier this month, the LGC is going to be holding a sustained action, on a weekly basis, outside the US Embassy.

All dressed up and nowhere to go on a Friday evening?

Then join the
LONDON GUANTANAMO CAMPAIGN
every FRIDAY evening at 6-7pm outside the American Embassy, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, W1, to call on the American government to shut down the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.

Five years of detention without trial or charge. No access to their families. How long can this injustice go on?

PROTEST LAUNCH ON 9 FEBRUARY AT 6-7PM OUTSIDE THE AMERICAN EMBASSY

Come and join us!!!







Organised by the London Guantánamo Campaign

For more details, contact 07824 386 747 or  london_gitmo@yahoo.co.uk

www.guantanamo.org.uk

London Guantanamo Campaign
- e-mail: london_gitmo@yahoo.co.uk
- Homepage: http://www.guantanamo.org.uk

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Prisoners in other parts of Cuba

31.01.2007 10:31

As your organisation is concerned about the treatment of persons in Cuba I wonder if you would care to take up the cause of others being held prisoner in Cuba.
Cuban law greatly limits freedom of expression, association and assembly. Anyone attempting to voice views, attend meetings, or form organizations that do not conform to government policy or state ideology is likely to be persecuted, the punishments ranging from harassment and loss of employment to imprisonment and beatings.

For this reason, in Cuba there are hundreds of which we know, probably many more of which we do not know, who are political prisoners and/or prisoners of conscience. Political prisoners are generally thought as individuals incarcerated for political reasons. Amnesty International defines prisoners of conscience specifically as "people who are imprisoned by reason of their political, religious, or other conscientiously held beliefs or by reason of their ethnic origin, sex, colour or language, provided they have not used or advocated violence" ("Cuba: Current prisoners of conscience must be released," AMR 25/36/99).

Cuban political prisoners and prisoners of conscience run the gamut of age, sex, and color. Some have been explicitly convicted for political reasons, such as "enemy propaganda" or "desacato," a vague legal term that can be translated as "contempt for authority." Others have been detained on fictional criminal charges to disguise the political motivations for their arrests.

The judicial system in Cuba has little in place to protect these individuals since lawyers are employed by the Cuban state and are often reluctant to question seriously the arguments put forth by prosecutors or the Department of State Security. Furthermore, lawyers are not always given adequate time to prepare a defense, or alternately, detainees are held for long periods of time without access to a lawyer and sometimes even pressured to sign incriminating documents. ("Cuba: Current prisoners of conscience must be released,"AMR 25/36/99).

The Cuban Embassy is not far from the Grosvenor Square. The address is:

Cuban Embassy
167 High Holborn,
London WC1 6PA.
Tel: 020 7240 2488
Fax: 020 7836 2602

Nearest Tube Station: Holborn

Why not come down after you protest and join us in calling for the release of those whose only crime has been to call for fair and free elections. A cause I'm sure close to your heart.




Look forward to seeing you there
- Homepage: http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/cub-summary-eng

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interesting choice

31.01.2007 15:42

a post which talks about protest against prisoners held at Gitmo is ok but one which talks about political prisoners held in Cuba is not ?

Would anyone like to tell what is wrong with the comment that was posted, which of the guidelines it broke ?

it seems to me the Indymedia editors have a blind spot when it comes to Cuban political prisoners

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