Guantanamo 7th. Birthday, Copenhagen 02C_DSC3993

Amnesty International Demonstration in Copenhagen, Denmark
7th. Birthday Guantánamo
© Fotograf / Photographer:
Tom Flemming Elowsson
WWW.IRB.DK
TE@IRB.DK

As the unlawful detentions of ‘enemy combatants’ at the US detention centre at the Guantánamo Bay naval base, Cuba, enter their fifth year, Amnesty International is renewing its call for the detention centre to be closed and for all those held to be released or given fair trial according to international law and without recourse to the death penalty on the US mainland. Four years since the first transfers to Guantánamo, approximately 500 men(1) of around 35 nationalities remain held at the detention facility unlawfully. Reports from the detainees and their lawyers suggest that many have been subjected to torture or other forms of ill-treatment in Guantánamo or in other US detention centres. Some have embarked on a prolonged hunger strike, among them those who have requested not to be force-fed in order that they may be allowed to die. There have been numerous suicide attempts and fears for the physical and psychological welfare of the detainees increase as each day of indefinite detention passes.

Link: www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/AMR51/007/2006/en/dom-AM...