London Guantánamo campaign action on 11 January 2009
The London Guantánamo Campaign with partner organizations held a demonstration outside the US Embassy in Mayfair on January 11, 2009.
Speakers included Green MEP for London Jean Lambert, CND Vice President and peace activist Walter Wolfgang, veteran peace campaigner and prisoner rights activist Bruce Kent, Martin Linton, Labour MP for Battersea, Camilla Jelbart, Campaign Coordinator at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat, Joy Hurcombe from Brighton Against Guantánamo and Imam Shakeel Begg from Lewisham Mosque.
Rap artist Mohammed Yahya performed a special song he had composed in solidarity with the detainees, and Mousa Brown who had been detained at Belmarsh and later acquitted by a jury in a “terror” trial spoke of his own experiences in the UK and how difficult it was for him and his family, even though he still had some access to them.
The final speaker was journalist and author of The Guantánamo Files, Andy Worthington, who spoke of some of the recent events at Guantanamo, including the military commission trials and the release of several detainees following court orders.
More pictures from the demonstration and other Guantanamo anniverary events.
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