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SHAKER AAMER was among five of Guantanamo’s former British inmates to assemble outside the US Embassy in London yesterday to demand the infamous prison’s immediate closure.
Mr Aamer, Moazzam Begg, Ruhal Ahmed and others met for the first time at a rally on Grosvenor Square on the day that marked the detention centre’s 14th anniversary.
There are still 104 men awaiting release in Guantanamo Bay, 45 of whom have long been cleared for transfer.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan
JOE ATTARD explains why trade unionists are rallying in solidarity against the recent arrest of political activists in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northernmost region of Kashmir, administered by Pakistan
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’