The organization CAGE has launched a new website and gathered seven survivors together to tell their stories-- link below. (Sorry about the formatting problem but the links still work!)
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#GITMO20:
Time to Close Guantanamo Together
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Assalamu Alaykum
Dear supporters and friends,
To mark 20
years since to the day the first of nearly 780 men were trafficked
to the infamous torture centre, Guantanamo Bay, we
have today launched the website ‘www.closingguantanamotogether.com’.
The website
showcases two decades worth of campaigns, prisoner artwork and
poetry, cutting edge research, and moving interviews with former
prisoners and their families by CAGE.
As well as
listing the remaining prisoners, the website serves as a rallying
platform to close Guantanamo bay and enact the 8-point plan to do
so as put together and endorsed by former prisoners.
“Closing Guantanamo
Together is dedicated to the survivors of Guantanamo. It’s an
effort to centre the survivor voice and ensure the campaign to
close Guantanamo and free its prisoners remains rooted in the
experiences and testimonies of those who lived through what is now
known as ‘the gulag of our times’.” - Moazzam Begg
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WATCH
Guantanamo Memorial Event: Ex-Guantanamo Prisoners Speak About
Their Experiences: 20 Years of Guantanamo Bay
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On the 8th
January, 7 former prisoners came together to mark the 20th
anniversary of Guantanamo's opening. It was the largest gathering
of former Guantanamo prisoners marking this occasion.
Speakers
included:
Mohamedou
ould Salahi (Mauritania)
Omar Khadr (Canada)
Shaker Aamer (UK)
Ahmed Errachidi (Morocco)
Omar Deghayes (UK/Libya)
Mansoor Adayfi (Yemen/Serbia)
Clive Stafford-Smith (Lawyer)
Moazzam Begg (UK)
Exclusively
for this anniversary, CAGE is providing the full recording of the
event. Watch men who have not only survived Guantanamo, but also
continue to embody faith and resilience.
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