Washington DC: On a chilly January 11, 2009, Amnesty International USA joined with Witness Against Torture for a very orange rally to shut Guantanamo. Approximately 250 people took part.
On Tuesday, January 13th during the evening rush hour, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International USA held a candlelight vigil to close Guantanamo in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. Approximately 50 people attended.
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Close Guantánamo action in Belgium
Just a little feedback on the demonstration we made yesterday in front of the US embassy in Brussels.
As you can see on the banner (in the picture), our key message was “Let them go or try them according international standards”.
We built a big cage and had big hellium ballons in the shape of orange jumpsuits. We were not received by US authorities but three belgian EP joined us. 60 persons were present at the action. Wa also had some images on the TV noon news and the main belgian press agency (Belga) made a PR.
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We organized a march Sunday January 11th 2009 to close Guantanamo in Montréal (Québec) Canada. It was a very cold day and we were lucky to get around 50 activists, even children, to support our action.
As Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen, he is of importance to all of us so we were holding mask of Omar during the whole march. We only distributed some pamphlets because it was too cold to ask to sign the petition. The media coverage was intense, which we are happy about it.
We could not take too much pictures and videos as my camera froze. But we will try to do a short video for youtube with what we got.
Watch more pictures of the event on Flickr
En el séptimo aniversario de la llegada de los primeros presos al centro de detención de Guantánamo, Amnistía Internacional se ha concentrado frente a la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Madrid.
Bajo los lemas: “Bye Guantánamo” y “Cómo cuándo”, los activistas de la organización han pedido el cierre de este símbolo de la “guerra contra el terror”.
Visita la página web de Amnistía Internacional en España.
It was a VERY cold afternoon in central Bern on Saturday, January 10, when 30 activists took turns kneeling in one of the gray prisoner cages; to representing one of the Gitmo prisoners in orange chained to a column at the entrance to the railway station, holding a sign with name and fate of selected prisoners; to approaching people and asking them to sign our postcard to Obama and a letter taking up the recent urgent action for Omar Khadr.
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