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| On Friday (11 January), the US detention facility at Guantánamo will have been open for 11 years. It is universally regarded as a place of torture and abuse, where human rights are routinely violated. While it remains in existence, it stains the reputation of the US and its supporters, and denies justice to the prisoners still held there beyond the rule of law. The re-election of President Obama should be the green light to its closure. His nomination of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defence is a hopeful sign – he is on record as saying that "the military prison is why the US is losing the image war" (Obama's gauntlet, 9 January). | On Friday (11 January), the US detention facility at Guantánamo will have been open for 11 years. It is universally regarded as a place of torture and abuse, where human rights are routinely violated. While it remains in existence, it stains the reputation of the US and its supporters, and denies justice to the prisoners still held there beyond the rule of law. The re-election of President Obama should be the green light to its closure. His nomination of Chuck Hagel as secretary of defence is a hopeful sign – he is on record as saying that "the military prison is why the US is losing the image war" (Obama's gauntlet, 9 January). |
| On Friday, campaigners will join the London Guantánamo Campaign to tour London embassies, marking the rendition routes of prisoners who were cruelly transported to Guantánamo on secret CIA torture flights. Many countries, including Turkey, Portugal, Spain and the UK, allowed the use of their air space and facilities for these covert operations across national borders, in breach of international rules and agreements. The Save Shaker Aamer Campaign welcomes support for Shaker Aamer's rendition route to torture. Campaigners will start the tour to mark Shaker's cruel abduction, torture and rendition journey from Bagram, Afghanistan to Guantánamo. The route will end at the US embassy for an evening candlelit vigil. We will demand that President Obama fulfils his pledge to close Guantánamo. He could start now with the release and return to the UK of British resident Shaker Aamer, held for nearly 11 years in Guantánamo without charge or trial. Joy Hurcombe Worthing, West Sussex | On Friday, campaigners will join the London Guantánamo Campaign to tour London embassies, marking the rendition routes of prisoners who were cruelly transported to Guantánamo on secret CIA torture flights. Many countries, including Turkey, Portugal, Spain and the UK, allowed the use of their air space and facilities for these covert operations across national borders, in breach of international rules and agreements. The Save Shaker Aamer Campaign welcomes support for Shaker Aamer's rendition route to torture. Campaigners will start the tour to mark Shaker's cruel abduction, torture and rendition journey from Bagram, Afghanistan to Guantánamo. The route will end at the US embassy for an evening candlelit vigil. We will demand that President Obama fulfils his pledge to close Guantánamo. He could start now with the release and return to the UK of British resident Shaker Aamer, held for nearly 11 years in Guantánamo without charge or trial. Joy Hurcombe Worthing, West Sussex |
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