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In Japan, activists collected pictures of hooded participants with message placards including ‘Close Guantanamo’ and ‘Justice for detainees’.
The ‘Good bye, Guantánamo’ action targeted Amnesty International local groups, other civil organizations and academics to screen the film Taxi to the Dark Side across Japan.
More pictures from Amnesty International Japan and other section events
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The inauguration of US President-elect Barack Obama on 20 January 2009 will be accompanied by widespread expectation of change. The world will be watching and hoping for positive outcomes on many different issues.
Ahead of his inauguration, Amnesty International’s new film First 100 days is asking the President-elect to take concrete steps to demonstrate his commitment to international human rights standards, including in the context of countering terrorism.
Cageprisoners UK tour
Cageprioners presents Two Sides One Story, a UK tour that brings those on opposite sides of the wire at Guantanamo together for the first time, with its launch in London exactly seven years after the first transfers to Guantanamo Bay in January 2002.
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.
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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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