Emergency Demonstration: Bring Binyam Back!
Tuesday 17 February, 1-2.30pm
US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair W1A 1AE (nearest tube: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

At the beginning of the month, a US military lawyer, Yvonne Bradley, visited Binyam Mohamed in his cell at Guantánamo Bay and reported that he was just “skin and bones” and is close to death: if action is not taken quickly, it is likely that he will leave Guantánamo Bay in a body bag, she reported.

Binyam has been on hunger strike since the beginning of the year with several dozen other detainees and is currently being force fed. His situation is desperate. As diplomatic manoeuvres continue to return him to the UK (the UK having sought his return in August 2007), Binyam is deteriorating. Time is running out! After almost seven years of arbitrary detention on three continents, torture and abuse for crimes no one has been able to prove or provide evidence for (he does not even currently face charges), President Obama must now release Binyam Mohamed and return him to the UK.

Please join the London Guantánamo Campaign and Brighton Against Guantánamo as we protest outside the US Embassy on Tuesday lunchtime calling on President Obama to deliver on his promises and his commitments to human rights and the rule of law by releasing Binyam Mohamed.

In the event that Binyam is released and returned to the UK before Tuesday 17 February, we will cancel the demonstration. Please look out for further notices.

For more details, please email  london.gtmo@googlemail.com or call Aisha on 07809 757 176

More on Binyam’s hunger strike:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/inside-guantanamo-the-diary-of-binyam-mohamed-1606319.html

See also:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421973.html